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No. 193, 24 June 1835, to the Commissariat Officer from the Treasury relative to the value of gold coins of the South American States. Also Circular Despatch, 17 September 1838, referring to a Royal Order in Council fixing the relative value of British silver and the foreign dollar and doubloon.
Coins in Circulation.
All British coins:
Silver dollar
French five franc piece
American:
Silver half dollar
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£ s. d.
0 4 2
-
0 3 101
0 2 0
quarter dollar
-
Gold Coins.
United States:
:
Double eagle
Eagle
Half engle
Quarter eagle
Dollar
No Colonial coin.
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0 1 0
21094
42100
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0
6
යථා පුස
0 10 3
0 4 1
Amount of coin in circulation not known, but the transactions of the Nassau Public Bank for the
were-reccipts 398,0061.; payments 399,7541.
No paper currency in circulation.
year
1880
Accounts are kept in sterling under local Act 2 Vict. cap. 4.
TRINIDAD.
The Attorney-General states at the time of the capture of this Island, 18 February 1797, and also at the date of the Treaty of Amiens, by which the right of the British Crown to the Island was confirmed, 29 March 1802, currency in England was regulated by 14 Geo. 3. cap. 42.
There is no Local Ordinance defining what money is a legal tender.
The following Proclamations are in force :-
14 September 1838. Regulating the rate at which certain foreign coins are to pass current in Her
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Majesty's West India Colonies (the Spanish dollar and the doubloon), namely:--
Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian gold coin called
doubloons, at the rate of 648.
Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian silver coin called
dollars, at the rate of 48. 2d.
19 August 1853. Regulating the rate at which the gold coins of the United States shall circulate in the West Indies, viz. :~
The eagle at the rate of
The half eagle at the rate of
The quarter eagle at the rate of
The gold dollar at the rate of
S. d.
41 0
20 6
10 3
4 1
9 March 1854. Extending proclamation of 19 August 1853 to British Guiana and to the United States gold coin called the double eagle or other multiple or mul- tiples of the eagle. The double eagle to pass at the rate of 41. 28.
10 November 1866. Declaring gold coins made at the Branch Mint at Sydney to be a legal tender.
5 December 1874. Copper coin not to be allowed to pass after the 15 December 1874.
Ordinance No. 7 of 1876. To demonetize Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian silver coins called dollars.
"The Act Extract of Minute on above Despatch. "14 Geo. 3. cap. 42. would not apply to Trinidad unless expressly introduced by local legislation, which has not "been done.
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"The Local Ordinances, 14 of 1842 and 1 of 1874, "relate to offences against the coin."
Gold Coins:
Sovereigns
Coins in Circulation.
Nominal Value.
Legal Value.
1. British:
8 cts.
£ s. d.
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4 80
1
0 0
Half sovereigns
2 40
0 10
0
10 00
1
5 00
-
0
6
2 50
-
-
1
2. United States:
Eagle Half Eagle Quarter eagle Dollar
00
2000
03-
0 10 3
0 4
1
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