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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
What I want to know is how Australia, originally (for the white man, I know that there were and are aboriginals) a British colony, ended up with dollars as their unit of currency, not pounds. ha.
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Australia used Pounds, Shillings and Pence as its currency until 1966, when it changed to dollars, on the basis of 10s = AUD1. ie £1 = $2. It therefore pre-dated the UK in switching to a decimal currency system by 5 years.