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Welcome to the British Currency Task Force

Part of WikiProject Numismatics
United Kingdom Republic of Ireland

The British Currency Task Force of WikiProject Numismatics is a hub dedicated to the organisation and continued development of articles relating to the curency of the British Isles.

Scope

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As a task force we seek to improve and develop articles relating to both the historic and modern day currencies of the British Isles. The majority of our articles are the result of intersection between WikiProject Numismatics and a range of other projects such as WikiProject England, WikiProject Scotland

Currency Territories Group
Current Former
Euro (Coins) Irish Pound (Coins)

Coins of Ireland

Republic of IrelandIreland Sovereign states
British Pound (Coins) English Coinage

Scottish Coinage

Celtic coinage

Roman currency

United KingdomUnited Kingdom
Akrotiri and DhekeliaAkrotiri and Dhekelia British Overseas territories
AnguillaAnguilla
Bermudian dollar Bermudian pound BermudaBermuda
British Indian Ocean TerritoryBritish Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin IslandsBritish Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands dollar Cayman Islands Cayman Islands
Falkland Islands pound Falkland IslandsFalkland Islands
Gibraltar pound Gibraltar real GibraltarGibraltar
MontserratMontserrat
Pitcairn Islands dollar Pitcairn IslandsPitcairn Islands
Eastern Caribbean Dollar

Saint Helena pound

British West Indies dollar United KingdomSaint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Turks and Caicos IslandsTurks and Caicos Islands
Alderney pound

Guernsey pound

Bailiwick of GuernseyBailiwick of Guernsey Crown dependencies
Jersey pound JerseyJersey
Manx pound Isle of ManIsle of Man

Currencies of the Commonwealth realm

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Commonwealth nations retain the queen as head of state who is often featured on their currency.

Currency Country
Current Former
Eastern Caribbean Dollar British West Indies dollar Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda
Australian dollar (coins) Australian pound AustraliaAustralia
Bahamian dollar The BahamasThe Bahamas
Barbadian dollar BarbadosBarbados
Belize dollar (coins) BelizeBelize
Canadian dollar (coins) Canadian pound CanadaCanada
Eastern Caribbean Dollar British West Indies dollar Grenada Grenada
Jamaican pound JamaicaJamaica
New Zealand pound New Zealand dollar (coins) New ZealandNew Zealand
New Guinean pound Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea
Eastern Caribbean Dollar British West Indies dollar Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Kitts and Nevis
Eastern Caribbean Dollar British West Indies dollar Saint Lucia Saint Lucia
Eastern Caribbean Dollar British West Indies dollar Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Solomon Islands dollar Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands
Tuvaluan dollar TuvaluTuvalu

Historic British Colonies

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Currencies used during the British Empire.

Continent Currency
Africa British West African pound British Cameroons
British Sierra Leone
British West Africa
NigeriaColonial Nigeria
The GambiaGambia Colony and Protectorate
East African shilling British Somaliland
Colony of Aden
KenyaKenya Colony
Tanganyika
Gold Coast ackey Gold Coast
Mauritian dollar MauritiusBritish Mauritius
Mauritian rupee
Nigerian pound NigeriaColonial Nigeria
Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Rhodesian pound Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
South African pound Cape Colony
Colony of Natal
Orange River Colony
Transvaal Colony
Southern Rhodesian pound Northern Rhodesia
Nyasaland 
Southern Rhodesia
South West African pound South West Africa
Zanzibari ryal ZanzibarZanzibar
Zanzibari rupee
Asia British North Borneo dollar Crown Colony of North Borneo
North BorneoNorth Borneo
Ceylonese rixdollar British Ceylon
Coins of British India  India
Hong Kong dollar (coins)  Hong Kong
Weihaiwei
Malaya and British Borneo dollar Brunei Brunei
Crown Colony of North Borneo
Crown Colony of Sarawak Crown Colony of Sarawak
Colony of Singapore
Federation of Malaya
Malayan dollar Brunei Brunei
Colony of Singapore
Crown Colony of Labuan
Federated Malay States
Malayan Union
Palestine pound United Kingdom Mandatory Palestine
Sarawak dollar Crown Colony of Sarawak Crown Colony of Sarawak
Straits dollar Brunei Brunei
Crown Colony of Labuan
Federated Malay States
Straits Settlements
Americas British Columbia dollar British ColumbiaBritish Columbia
British Guianan guilder British GuianaBritish Guiana
Coins of British America United States British America
Newfoundland dollar Newfoundland and LabradorNewfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland pound
Trinidad and Tobago dollar Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago
Western Samoan pound SamoaSamoa
Australia Coins of the Fijian dollar  Fiji
Coins of the Fijian pound
New Hebrides franc New Hebrides
Tongan pound TongaTonga
Europe Cypriot pound (coins) CyprusBritish Cyprus
Ionian obol United States of the Ionian Islands
Maltese lira MaltaState of Malta

Participants

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Interested in helping out? Feel free to add your username to the list.

  1. TsangeTalk 16:33, 22 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Wehwalt (talk) 19:32, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  3. M.T.S.W.A. (talk) 19:05, 17 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Intersecting Categories

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Assessment

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Resources

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Numismatic Books

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  • A New History of the Royal Mint, C. E. Challis, 1992
  • The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948, John Craig, 1953

Online Numismatic Books

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  • Numismatic Manual, John Yonge Akerman, 1850 (Online Edition)
  • Journals of the British Numismatic Society (Online Editions)
  • The Royal Mint Its Working, Conduct, and Operations, Fully and Practically Explained, George Frederick Ansell, 1870 (Online Edition)
  • Annals of the coinage of Great Britain and its dependencies: from the earliest period of authentic history of the reign of Victoria, Volume 1, Rogers Ruding (1840) (Online edition)
  • Supplement to the Annals of the Coinage of Britain, Rogers Ruding (1819) (Online edition)
  • The Silver Coins of England, Edward Hawkins, 1841 (Online Edition)