Mauritius colonial dollar accounting
Mauritius colonial dollar accounting: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction uncertain; ended 1877
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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Mauritius colonial dollar accounting
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
1 later contribution joined this currency. See those connections →
The story
Mauritius bankers and merchants kept dollar-and-cent accounts, while government kept sterling and shopkeepers also retained livre/sou reckoning. [1]
Mauritius replaced its local dollar reckoning with rupees effective1January 1877 at two rupees per dollar. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) C1448 ↗
- Nicholas Krus and Kurt Schuler · Currency Board Financial Statements, Studies in Applied Economics No.22 (December 2014) C1687 ↗
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