Evidence coverage: 1826–1877. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Mauritius bankers and merchants kept dollar-and-cent accounts, while government kept sterling and shopkeepers also retained livre/sou reckoning.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Mauritius bankers and merchants kept dollar-and-cent accounts, while government kept sterling and shopkeepers also retained livre/sou reckoning.
C1448Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Mauritius bankers and merchants kept dollar-and-cent accounts, while government kept sterling and shopkeepers also retained livre/sou reckoning.
Printed p.174, citing1867 annual report p.27
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
The Mauritius dollar was a locally valued version of the Spanish silver peso, fixed at five dollars per sterling pound and used in local accounting.
Printed p.174
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
Mauritius replaced its local dollar reckoning with rupees effective1January1877 at two rupees per dollar.
Printed p.175
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.
Local dollars were converted to rupees at two rupees per dollar effective1January1877.
Printed p.175
Underlying annual reports and ordinances not independently inspected.
Gambia coin date conflicts with the indexed central-bank account.
Institutional liquidation is not currency termination.