Irish pound — pre-1826 account unit
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Irish pound
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The story
Kelly dates completion of the assimilation of the earlier Irish currency into that of the UK to 1826. [1]
The 1825 Commons debate described £100 British as equivalent to £108 6s 8d Irish and proposed discharging Irish debts at twelve-thirteenths in British currency. [2]
The debate described Irish circulation as a mixture of banknotes, bills, British coins, tokens and Irish copper. [3]
Replacement by an existing currency
This conversion belongs to the history of the retiring unit. It does not make that unit an ancestor of the currency adopted.
- Pound sterling · 1826
13/12 Irish pound = 1 GBP Conversion terms and evidence ↗
Sources and evidence
- John Kelly, Central Bank of Ireland Quarterly Bulletin, Spring 2003, 89–115 · The Irish Pound: From Origins to EMU
- UK Parliament, House of Commons, Hansard vol. 13, cols. 573–582 · Assimilation of the currencies of Great Britain and Ireland, 12 May 1825
- UK Parliament, House of Commons, Hansard vol. 13, cols. 573–582 · Assimilation of the currencies of Great Britain and Ireland, 12 May 1825
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