British Honduras / Belize dollar
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- BZD
- Ancestry branch
- Spanish real / peso
Its place in the family
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British Honduras / Belize dollar
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British Honduras / Belize dollar
Guatemalan peso
Spanish real / peso de a ocho
Castilian maravedí / real de vellón accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
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The story
Belize’s central bank dates local government dollar notes and a gold-basis reform to 1894. [1]
New British Honduras dollar accounting followed15October 1894 replacement, with prices and wages adjusting from former sols. [2]
Turning points
Multiple currency unification
Inference: British Honduras reorganised a sterling-based mixed circulation into a gold-basis system with local dollar notes in 1894. Sterling is one documented monetary input; Spanish-American coins and US dollars require separate branches. No exchange ratio inferred. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Central Bank of Belize · History of Belize Currency
- Frank Cundall, Institute of Jamaica · Political and Social Disturbances in the West Indies: A Brief Account and Bibliography (1906); United States Congress, reproducing contemporary consular and gubernatorial reports · Congressional Record31, House (1898), p 3757
- Central Bank of Belize · History of Belize Currency
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“British Honduras / Belize dollar.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000525.html