Currency history
Malaysian dollar / ringgit
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- MYR
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
All ancestors and descendants ↗Malaysian dollar / ringgit
This currencyChildren 0
No successor is established here.
Trace its ancestry backward
Malaysian dollar / ringgit
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
BNM dates Malaysia’s new dollar to June 12, 1967 and describes old-currency redemption at two shillings and fourpence sterling. [1]
BNM records Malaysia’s 1973 withdrawal from interchangeability and floating from June 21, 1973. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Bank Negara Malaysia · Significant milestones in the Malaysian foreign exchange market
- Bank Negara Malaysia · Significant milestones in the Malaysian foreign exchange market
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“Malaysian dollar / ringgit.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000501.html