Time Period: 1650-1900
Timeline
- ??.??.1694
- Rating of Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
- Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 72 Pennies
- 17.05.1705
- Rating of Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
- Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 84 Pennies
- Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 112 Shillings
- ??.??.1798
- Rating of Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
- Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 108 Pennies
- Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 144 Shillings
- 28.11.1838
- Rating of Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
- Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 112½ Pennies
- Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 144 Shillings
- 13.01.1847
- Devaluation of the accounting currency at a ratio of 1 : 2¼ (i.e. by 55.6%) and new rating of Spanish trade coins in Sterling currency:
- Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 50 Pence Sterling
- Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 64 Shillings Sterling
- around 1850
- Issuance of a token (small change substitute) denominated in Sterling currency by the trading company Hannay & Coltart in St. John
- ??.??.1877
- Law [No. 2], for the Leeward Islands, on the demonetization of the Spanish Dollar; effective immediately (?)
- 09.05.1881
- Ordinance [Order in Council], for the Leeward Islands, declared the British Coinage Act, 1870 in force; effective 18.06.1891.
- 03.02.1898: Ordinance [Order in Council], for the Leeward Islands, amended the 1881 act for the British Coinage Act, 1891; effective 22.04.1898
- ??.??.1915
- Law [Bank Note Act, No. 1], for the Leeward Islands, on the regulation of paper money issuance by commercial banks; effective 09.03.1915. The following banks issued paper money in Antigua, denominated in Dollar of 50 Pence Sterling:
- Royal Bank of Canada (est. 1864), start on 02.01.1913 using overprinted notes of Barbados
- Barclays Bank (est. 1925), start on 01.09.1926 using overprinted notes of Barbados.