Coins
Three denominations were minted. The 1 libra was for issued circulation between 1898 and 1930, the ½ libra between 1902 and 1913, and the 1⁄5 libra between 1905 and 1930.
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“No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
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