St. Helena Pound

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St. Helena Pound
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Country: Saint HelenaSaint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
( British Overseas Territory )
Subdivision: 100 pence
ISO 4217 code : SHP
Abbreviation: £
Exchange rate :
(August 27, 2020)

1 SHP = 1  GBP (fixed)

1  EUR  = 0.89505 SHP
1 SHP = 1.1173 EUR

1  CHF  = 0.8326 SHP
1 SHP = 1.2011 CHF

The St. Helena pound ( English Saint Helena pound ) is the currency of the British overseas territory of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha . The currency is only used in practical terms on St. Helena and Ascension , but not on Tristan da Cunha . There is no central bank for the overseas territory, but the currency is administered by a currency board founded in 1975 .

The pound sterling is an equal currency with a fixed exchange rate of 1 to 1.

The pound is divided into 100 pence. The area has its own coins minted at 1 penny, 2, 5, 10 and 50 pence as well as 1 and 2 pounds, and there are also 5, 10 and 20 pound notes .

An end to the independent St. Helena pound is expected by the chairman of the finance commission of the island area with the further opening of the island of St. Helena to tourists (as of March 2016).

literature

  • Steve Hanke, Matt Sekerke: St Helena's forgotten currency board , Johns Hopkins University, In: Central Banking Journal , Issue XIII, No. 3, February 2003. ( available online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tristan da Cunha Commemorative Coins. Government of Tristan da Cunha. Retrieved February 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Sterling Time? Financial Regulator Questions Future of St Helena Pound. The Sentinel, March 17, 2016, p. 9 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sams.sh