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.