British Currency Decimalised and Imperialised 9 



grains a reduction which would be immaterial the 5, 2, 

 and 1 cents would weigh 10, 6, and 3 grams respectively, 

 and would be useful as decimal weights. 



THE CKOWN COLONIES. 



In certain colonies coins below the value of a British 

 cent circulate. These coins of low value can all 

 be replaced by the use of three decimal submultiples 

 of the cent. The colonies in CLASS I require for 

 circulation a cent ; those in CLASS II, * and i cents ; 

 and those in CLASS III, i, i, and rV cents. (The differ- 

 ence in value between the and i cents is so infinitesimal 

 as to allow of the two coins of the latter value of Malta 

 and India being included in Class I.) Under each Class 

 is shown the lowest coin circulating in each colony, with 

 its approximate value. 



CLASS I : fl. 



Guernsey J penny or " double " ... 0005 



Mauritius (and Seychelles) ... cent of rupee 0005 



Brit. North. Borneo ... ... cent of Mexican dollar 0005 



Nigeria... ... ... ... ^V penny (perforated) ... 0004 



Malta | farthing 0003 



Brit. India J pice (^ anna) 0003 



CLASS Hi- 

 Straits Settlements I cent of S.S. dollar ... 01002 



East Africa (and Uganda) ... J cent of rupee 0'002 



CLASS III: 



Ceylon | cent of rupee 01001 



Hong Kong (and Labuan) ... rg- cent of Mexican dollar 01001 



In British India, where the pice is equivalent in value 

 to the British farthing, there would be no difficulty in 

 making the necessary change, the natives being accus- 

 tomed to make their calculations in that denomination. 

 The rupee consists of 16 annas and 64 pice. The 

 pice would suffer the same slight depreciation as the 

 British farthing. As regards the other rupee-using 

 colonies Ceylon, Mauritius (and Seychelles), and East 

 Africa (and Uganda) the coinages of these differ 

 from that of India in that they are already decimalised, 



