Talk:Straits dollar

Exchange rate
The exchange rate table is hardly believable. 1 GBP = $0.19 in 1896 and then the next year $11.51? From 1899 to 1901, it went from 11.34 to 0.02 and back to 11.01? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The exchange rate was compiled from Malaysia: A Study in Direct and Indirect Rule, written by Rupert Emerson, Professor of Government in Harvard University (the exchange value was in page 522) User:Andrew Kidman 21 May 2007


 * But I still find it hard to believe. Got ISBN? Perhaps we can use Amazon's "search-inside-the-book" feature? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 07:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

This book has no ISBN although it's a Third impression in 1969. This book was published first by Macmillan Company 1939, Reissued by Pustaka Ilmu 1964, and third impression 1964 & 1969 by University Malaya Press. Maybe you're confused, the table shown the conversion of one pound to the exchange value of straits dollar. User:Andrew Kidman 23 May 2007


 * Given that the Straits dollar was worth 2/4 (£1 = $8.57) from 1906, this table is complete nonsense. I shall remove it. If a corrected version can be found, please put it in. Dove1950 15:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

how to contribute to this page....
Am a collector who happens to stumble onto this page...but the more i see it...it looks like history of straits rather than on the topic of numismatics....

btw, i'm from singapore also


 * This page is confusing and poorly organised. the introductory paragraph states that the currency started in 1904, but then the coins section states that it started in 1845! Should it be 'started in 1845 and became official in 1904' in the introduction?? i have the 1845 coins, so i know that bit is correct. 90.193.233.41 (talk) 12:25, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

The Ultimate Source
There is a book called something like 'Currency Reform in the Straits Settlements' by J O Antoniscz. It goes into great detail about the events surrounding the creation of the Straits dollar and the reasons for it. It hadn't been long since Hong Kong and the Straits had both jointly pressed the British government for a silver dollar coinage. In 1895, they were granted the British Trade Dollar which was minted in Bombay and Calcutta. But no sooner had the Straits Settlements got the British Trade Dollar when they wanted to go off silver and unto gold. When the Straits Dollar was introduced in 1903, it was a silver dollar in the likeness of the British trade dollar. The challenge was then to get its sterling exchange value raised in comparison to that of the British trade dollar. This was achieved by demonetizing all the other dollars. David Tombe (talk) 21:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)