Hello Everyone Thank you all for your help, I have been following up the various references you have sent. For your information the following is a list of equivalent sterling values in New South Wales, Australia in November 1800 1 Guinea = £1-2-0 1 Johanna (Portuguese) = £4-0-0 ½ Johanna = £2-0-0 Gold Mohur (Bombay or Bengal) = £1-17-6 Spanish $ = 5/- Ducat = 9/6 Pagoda (S. India) = 8/- Rupee (Bengal) = 2/6 Dutch guilder = 2/- English shilling = 1/8 1oz Copper coin = 2d ½oz Copper coin = 1d ¼ oz Copper coin = ½d The copper coins had twice the value they did in England at this time, with £1200 in face value arriving in the colony (and to stop hoarding £5 was the largest amount permitted for legal tender). This is taken from Foundations of the Australian Monetary System 1788-1851 by SJ Butlin (1953) I'm very pleased I was not a shop keeper at that time although I guess my arithmetic would have improved out of necessity. Many thanks Cheers Caroline

How could it be - anywhere, ever - that in such a table 1 Guinea is not £1-1-0 or an English shilling is not 1/- ? I am not qualified to say this table is wrong, exactly. But what is the story to explain these anomalies ? Rupert Butler -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Caroline Gaden Sent: 16 September 2010 08:07 To: [email protected]; India List; India List Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Currency for trading overseas Hello Everyone Thank you all for your help, I have been following up the various references you have sent. For your information the following is a list of equivalent sterling values in New South Wales, Australia in November 1800 1 Guinea = £1-2-0 1 Johanna (Portuguese) = £4-0-0 ½ Johanna = £2-0-0 Gold Mohur (Bombay or Bengal) = £1-17-6 Spanish $ = 5/- Ducat = 9/6 Pagoda (S. India) = 8/- Rupee (Bengal) = 2/6 Dutch guilder = 2/- English shilling = 1/8 1oz Copper coin = 2d ½oz Copper coin = 1d ¼ oz Copper coin = ½d The copper coins had twice the value they did in England at this time, with £1200 in face value arriving in the colony (and to stop hoarding £5 was the largest amount permitted for legal tender). This is taken from Foundations of the Australian Monetary System 1788-1851 by SJ Butlin (1953) I'm very pleased I was not a shop keeper at that time although I guess my arithmetic would have improved out of necessity. Many thanks Cheers Caroline ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Rupert ..............surely the table means just what it says - ie the value of the various other coins as expressed in Australian currency..........? Stephen Thwaite New Zealand //// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Butler family and business" <[email protected]> How could it be - anywhere, ever - that in such a table 1 Guinea is not £1-1-0 or an English shilling is not 1/- ? I am not qualified to say this table is wrong, exactly. But what is the story to explain these anomalies ? Rupert Butler -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Hello Everyone .....[snip].... For your information the following is a list of equivalent sterling values in New South Wales, Australia in November 1800 1 Guinea = £1-2-0 1 Johanna (Portuguese) = £4-0-0 ½ Johanna = £2-0-0 Gold Mohur (Bombay or Bengal) = £1-17-6 Spanish $ = 5/- Ducat = 9/6 Pagoda (S. India) = 8/- Rupee (Bengal) = 2/6 Dutch guilder = 2/- English shilling = 1/8 1oz Copper coin = 2d ½oz Copper coin = 1d ¼ oz Copper coin = ½d The copper coins had twice the value they did in England at this time, with £1200 in face value arriving in the colony (and to stop hoarding £5 was the largest amount permitted for legal tender). This is taken from Foundations of the Australian Monetary System 1788-1851 by SJ Butlin (1953) .....[snip].... Caroline

On 18 September 2010 21:52, Thwaite <[email protected]> wrote: > Rupert > ..............surely the table means just what it says - ie the value of > the > various other coins as expressed in Australian currency..........? > > check holey dollar in google.