WI/PC £ Sterling still used by Australia/Canada & New Zealand

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What POD would allow Australia, Canada and New Zealand to still use £ Sterling as their respective currencies instead of their own $ variants?

Bonus points if you also get South Africa to use £ Sterling as well.

Cheers filers.
 
So far as I'm aware, Sterling was never used in Canada. So you'd need a POD well before 1900 to get Canada to use it at all.
 
Ship's right - although during a brief period in the 19th century Canada has its own pound, it was never equivalent to sterling, nor was sterling ever used. Retaining the Canadian pound (as well as the associated French-language terminology livre, sou, etc.) requires a 19th century POD (which would be outside the purview of post-1900) - and even then it would still have to be defined in relation to the dollar. There's a reason why Canada went for its own dollar, and in part it was (and still is) because the US is one of Canada's largest trading partners. That's not going to change, mainly due to geographic reasons.
 
What POD would allow Australia, Canada and New Zealand to still use £ Sterling as their respective currencies instead of their own $ variants?

Bonus points if you also get South Africa to use £ Sterling as well.

Cheers filers.

AFAIK Australia had the Australian Pound, but it wasn't at part with the Pound Sterling. IIRC it was A£ 1.25 = £ 1.00 Sterling.

New Zealand had the NZ Pound not the Pound Sterling, but NZ£ 1 = £ 1 Sterling.

IIRC Australia and New Zealand changed from Pounds to Dollars when they decimalised with IIRC A£ 1 becoming $A 2 or one Australian Shilling becoming 5 Australian Cents.

The UK decimalised in 1971 about 5 years after Australia and New Zealand.

Therefore I think the easiest way for Australia and New Zealand to keep their Pounds is for the UK to decimalise before 1939 and then Australia, Irish Free State, New Zealand and South Africa probably decimalise at the same time using the same system.

As an aside Southern Ireland kept the Irish Pound until they joined the Euro and it was at par with the Pound Sterling until they joined the Exchange Rate Mechanism in about 1980.
 
So far as I'm aware, Sterling was never used in Canada. So you'd need a POD well before 1900 to get Canada to use it at all.

It was used in Canada in the 19th century.

The POD would have to be before the 1840s as that was when some bureaucrat or other opted for a decimalized currency for the Province of Canada, which was naturally followed by the rest of British North America.

The best bet would probably be for the Imperial currency scheme of the late 1830s to succeed, but I don't know why it failed.
 
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