Jamaican dollar

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The Jamaican) has been the currency of Jamaica since 1969. It is divided into 100 cents.

The history of currency in Jamaica should not be considered in isolation of the wider picture in the British West Indies as a whole. See British West Indies dollar. The peculiar feature about Jamaica was the fact that it was the only British West Indies territory to use special issues of the sterling coinage, apart from the four-pence groat coin which was specially issued for all the British West Indies, and later only for British Guiana.

Coins currently in circulation are 25 cent, 50, 100, 500 and 1 000 cents.

Banknotes currently in circulation are 50, 100, 500 and 1 000.

Source: en.wikipedia.org