Time Period: 1700-1900

Timeline

• ??.??.1761
• Rating of cut Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
  - Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Real in silver) with a heart-shaped central piercing at 10 Bits = 90 Pennies; the centre plug was melted down.
• 12.09.1798
• Rating of cut and uncut Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
  - Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 12 Bits = 108 Pennies
  - Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 144 Shillings
  - Spanish Dollar with indented round central piercing at 11 Bits = 99 Pennies
  - Cut Spanish Dollar's centre plug was stamped with "D / star", called "Moco", and rated at 1½ Bits = 13½ Pennies
• 07.08.1813
  21.08.1813
• Rating of cut Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
  - Spanish Dollar with a plain round central piercing and additional marking "12" at 12 Bits = 108 Pennies
  - Spanish Dollar's centre plug with additional marking "6", called "Moco" again, at 6 Bits = 54 Pennies
  - Half Spanish Dollar's centre plug with additional marking "3" at 3 Bits = 27 Pennies
  - Spanish Dollar with a indented round central piercing (1798) receiving an additional marking "16" at 16 Bits = 144 Pennies; the 1798 "Mocos" were withdrawn.
• 07.02.1840
• Rating of uncut Spanish trade coins in the accounting currency:
  - Spanish Dollar (8 Spanish Reals in silver) at 125 Pennies
  - Spanish Doubloon (8 Spanish Escudos in gold) at 160 Shillings.
• 13.06.1842
• Devaluation of the accounting currency at a ratio of 1 : 2½ (i.e. by 60.0%) and new rating of uncut 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.
• 17.10.1862
• Proclamation on the demonetisation of the cut Spanish trade coins at a rate of 12 Bits (1813) = 25 Shillings Sterling; effective immediately
• ??.??.1877
• Law [No. 2] of the Leeward Islands on the demonetization of the Spanish Dollar; effective immediately (?)
• 09.05.1881
• Ordinance [Order in Council] for the Leeward Islands, declares the British Coinage Act, 1870 in force; effective 18.06.1891. Amendment:
  - 03.02.1898: Ordinance [Order in Council] for the Leeward Islands, declares the British Coinage Acts, 1870 & 1891 in force; 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 Dominica, 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.