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equivalent to 4s. sterling, and the rial to ono eighth of a dollar. Act not to affect coin of value declared by Pro- clamation. This Act amended by 27 Viet. cap. 20.
27 Vict. cap. 20. amends the foregoing Act, and directs that the currency shall be reckoned in dollars and cents. The dollar to be computed at the rate of 48. sterling, and the cont at one hundredth part of the said sum.
Coins in Circulation.
British sterling money and United States gold are current, but none in circulation.
Spanish, Mexican, Central and South American:---
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Ordinance No. 1, 1840. Declared value of silver tokens of Demerara and Essequebo :---
hit
1
2
3
d.
cents.
0 2
4
0 4
8
0 8
16
1 0
24
1 4
32
2 8
64
4 0 = 96
One eighth Do. -
4 0 Eighth Do.
2 0
60003
32100
0 6
Gold Doubloons
£
8.
d.
3 4 0
Silver. Dollars, Mexican
S d. 4 0
Half Do.
-
1 12
0
Central and
Quarter Do.
0 16
0
South American ·
0 8
0
Half dollars
One
sixteenth
Quarter Do.
Do.
0
Twenty
dollar
Sixteenth Do.
"
pieces
4 0
0
Ten Do.
2 0 0
Five Do.
-
1 0 0
Costa Rica:-
8 dollar piece
1 10
0
4
0 15
0
11
"
2
0 +7 0
33
1
0 3 9
""
35
GUIANA.
42/79
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Amount of coin in circulation unknown.
No paper currency in circulation.
Accounts kept in dollars and cents.
BRITISH GUIANA.
Spanish, Mexican, Proclamation, 15 November 1838. and Columbian gold coin called doubloons to circulate and be received as of the value of 64s. sterling.
Ordinance 3 of 1839. Dollars and cents to be moneys of account at 4s. 2d. to the dollar in which there are 100 cents.
1 guilder
3
**
Proclamation, 12 April 1851. One penny pieces not exceeding in value one shilling and halfpenny and farthing pieces not exceeding in value sixpence declared to be legal tender.
Proclamation, 12 October 1853. Eagles at the value of 41s.; half eagles at 20s. 6d.; quarter eagles at 10s. 3d.; and gold dollars at 4s. 1d. All coinage of the United States of America to circulate and be received in pay-
ment.
Proclamation, 20 May 1854. Double eagles to pass current at the rate of 41. 23., and other multiples of an eagle, being of the coinage of the United States of Amorica, to be received in payment in proportion to their value.
Ordinance No. 6, 1876. Mexican, or Columbian cease as a legal tender.
Gold Coins:
1. British:
Sovereigns
Half Sovereigns
2. United States: Double eagle Eagle
Half eagle
Quarter eagle Dollar
Silver Coins:
1. British Silver:
Half crown
Florin
Shilling
-
Tender of payment in Spanish, silver coins called dollars to
Nominal value.
* cts.
4 80
2 40
Legal value,
£ s. d.
1 0
0
Th
0 10 0
20 00
4 2 0
10 00
2 1 0
5 00
-
1 0 6
2 50
0 10 3
1 00
www
0 60
0 48 0 24
-
0 4 1
2 6
000
2
1
0 1
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Sixpennies, fourpennies, and threepennies are also
current at their nominal value.
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