Currency history
Singapore dollar
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- SGD
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Singapore dollar
Straits / Malayan / Malaya–British Borneo dollar
Mexican peso
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
MAS describes Singapore–Brunei interchangeability at par; BDCB distinguishes customary tender from legal tender. [1]
Turning points
First issue
NLB identifies the 1967 end of shared issuance and separate Singapore, Malaysian and Brunei currencies. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Monetary Authority of Singapore · Brunei–Singapore Currency Interchangeability Agreement; Brunei Darussalam Central Bank · Currency interchangeability and Brunei currency history
- National Library Board, Singapore · History of Singapore’s currency
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“Singapore dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000500.html