CURRENCY AND BANKING

The total currency in circulation on 31st December, 1953, amounted to $841,488,167, made up as follows:--

$

Bank note issue

802,211,984

Government $1 note issue

22,741,500

Subsidiary notes and coin

16,534,683

$841,488,167

The corresponding total for the same date in 1952 was $842,382,376. A list of the banks operating in the Colony is given at Appendix V.

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