Currency history
Guyana dollar
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- GYD
- 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
Guyana dollar
British Caribbean / East Caribbean dollar
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
Bank of Guyana dates national notes replacing BCCB notes to November 15, 1965 and national coins to mid-1967. [1]
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“Guyana dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000519.html