NATAL
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found making gold. legal tender- No legislatio Silver it is thought is a good tender to any amount, instead of being limited to 10er de in England)
Coins in circulation are British gold, silver, copper, and bronze.
Foreign coins exist in very small quantities and are not used as a circulating medium.
There is no paper currency.
Amount of coin in circulation, 6,666,1317.
Telegram of 22nd Oct. 1881.-Requests extension of Imperial Currency Act, 33 Vict. cap. 10, 1870, to the Cape of Good Hope.
ST. HELENA.
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COUNCO. OFFICE. 6253/80.
NATAL.
The Imperial Currency Act, 33 Vict. cap. 10., of 1870 extended to the Colony by Order in Council, dated 29 November 1881, from the date of publication by the Governor of the Proclamation annexed to the Order in Council.
British gold and silver coins in circulation. Copper currency almost unknown.
Under authority of Circular to Collectors of Revenue, dated August 1876, Indian rupees are not accepted as current coinage.
Amount of coin in circulation estimated at about 700,000Z.
There is no Government paper currency, but the notes of the local banks circulate.
Accounts are kept in British money.
ST. HELENA.
The Acts of the Imperial Parliament relating to currency are in force in St. Helena so far as they are applicable.
Order in Council, dated 20 April 1880, approving the draft of a Proclamation restricting the legal currency of the Island to the sterling coins of the United Kingdom,
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and regulating the amounts to which silver and bronze coins shall be a legal tender (namely, 40s. silver and 1s. in bronze).
Proclamation published and brought into force by the Governor from and after the 17th of June 1880.
Coins in circulation, British only.
Amount of coin in circulation, about 5,000/. No paper currency.
Accounts kept in British sterling.
HELIGOLAND.
No legislation extant. Currency consists of English sovereigns and German reichsmark.
The German coins in circulation are--
Gold
37
"
Silver
20 marks.
10
+3
1
•
>>
*
17
50 pfennig.
20
10
5
2
*
1
Nickel
Copper
**
Amount of coin and paper currency in circulation not known.
Accounts kept in German currency.
CYPRUS.
EXTRACT of a REPORT of HER MAJESTY'S HIGH COMMIS- SIONER for CYPRUS (Command Paper 2543/80). Currency.
One of the first questions that was forced on the con- sideration of Sir Garnet Wolseley was the currency. The currency generally in circulation was " caïmé," copper, and "metalliques." These varied in value as follows:----
Caime about 250 piastres per T.£
Copper Metalliques
1
160 120
29
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5
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