Talk:Straits dollar
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[edit] Exchange rate
The exchange rate table is hardly believable. 1 GBP = $0.19 in 1896 and then the next year $11.51? From 1899 to 1901, it went from 11.34 to 0.02 and back to 11.01? --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
- The exchange rate was compiled from Malaysia: A Study in Direct and Indirect Rule , written by Rupert Emerson, Professor of Government in Harvard University (the exchange value was in page 522) User:Andrew Kidman 21 May 2007
This book has no ISBN although it's a Third impression in 1969. This book was published first by Macmillan Company 1939, Reissued by Pustaka Ilmu 1964, and third impression 1964 & 1969 by University Malaya Press. Maybe you're confused, the table shown the conversion of one pound to the exchange value of straits dollar. User:Andrew Kidman 23 May 2007
- Given that the Straits dollar was worth 2/4 (£1 = $8.57) from 1906, this table is complete nonsense. I shall remove it. If a corrected version can be found, please put it in.
Dove1950 15:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
