Currency history
New Zealand pound
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Sterling
Its place in the family
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New Zealand pound
This currencyTrace its ancestry backward
New Zealand pound
Pound sterling
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
Post-independence Samoa’s local bank issue succeeded the Bank of New Zealand pound-note system. Transition bounded by independence and decimalization; issuer terminology is imprecise about British versus New Zealand pounds. [1]
Turning points
New Zealand local pound coinage and national notes succeeded the British-coin and…
New Zealand local pound coinage and national notes succeeded the British-coin and trading-bank system. Staged monetary separation; no blanket 1:1 sterling conversion asserted. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Samoa · Brief History on the Central Bank; Deutsche Bundesbank · Metadata on the Exchange Rate Statistics, 24 September 2025
- Kerryn Pollock / Te Ara, Ministry for Culture and Heritage · Coins and banknotes
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“New Zealand pound.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000510.html