![]() The legal currency remained British silver and accounts were kept in pounds, shillings and pence. ![]() Pound-denominated treasury notes continued to circulate after 1836, along with the rupee. The Indian rupee was made Ceylon's standard coin on 26 September 1836, and Ceylon reverted to the Indian currency area. Rixdollar notes not presented for exchange were demonetized in June 1831. Treasury notes denominated in pounds were issued in 1827, replacing the earlier rixdollar notes. The British pound became Ceylon's official money of account in 1825, replacing the Ceylonese rixdollar at a rate of £1Stg = 1 + 1⁄ 3 rixdollars, and British silver coin was made legal tender. ![]()
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