# How did so many British colonies end up with dollar currencies?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-so-many-british-colonies-end-up-with-dollar-currencies/256112 "2004-07-21T01:44:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-so-many-british-colonies-end-up-with-dollar-currencies/256112/21 "2005-01-25T19:20:59Z")

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Oops, sorry.

I didn’t notice that this was an old thread, and I’ve pretty much simply repeated my earlier reply.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-so-many-british-colonies-end-up-with-dollar-currencies/256112/22 "2005-01-25T20:03:26Z")

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Well, we can make sure that that doesn’t happen again.

\*\*Mk VII \*\*, we _generally_ don’t resurrect old threads. (There can be exceptions, but I doin’t think this needed to be one.)

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