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Currency history

Gambian dalasi

Dates in use
Still in use; introduction date not established here
Currency code
GMD
Ancestry branch
Sterling

Its place in the family

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Gambian dalasi: documented and qualified family connections PARENTS THIS CURRENCY CHILDREN Gambian poundGambian pound 1971 · DocumentedDalasis per Gambian pound.Documented connection · 1971 · Dalasis per Gambian pound. Gambian dalasiGambian dalasi GMD No successor is established here.

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Gambian dalasi

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Children 0

No successor is established here.

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Roman as–denarius accounting

Earlier as reckoning; denarius introduced c. 211 BC; accounts continue into late antiquity

Earlier ancestry is not established here.

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The story

The surviving evidence establishes this unit of account, but a fuller narrative is still being developed. Its known connections are shown above; the research page documents what is established and what remains uncertain.

Turning points

First issue

A US Treasury notice records Gambian decimalization effective July 1, 1971, with five dalasis replacing one pound. [1]

Sources and evidence

  1. United States Treasury, Bureau of Accounts · Treasury Reporting Rates of Exchange: 1971 compilation, amendment dated 23 July 1971

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“Gambian dalasi.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Updated 2026-10-14; data version v49. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/T-FTM000647.html

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