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A state in the Punjab, India, now using Indian stamps.
Currency :
- 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee.
A state of Central India, now using Indian stamps.
Currency :
- 12 pies = 1 anna; 16 annas = 1 rupee.
A state on the South West coast of Italy. Formerley part of the Kingdom of Sicily until joined with Italy.
Currency :
- 100 grana = 200 tornesi = 1ducato.
Situated on the East Coast of South Africa.
Formerly a British colony and later a province of South Africa.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
An island in the West Pacific ocean.
Formerly under German control an then Australian control.
Became independent on 31 January 1968.Currency :
- 1916 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1966 100 cents = 1 Australian dollar.
An issue on behalf of Naples and South Italy in 1860.
Currency :
- 100 grana = 200 tornesi; 200 tornesi = 1 ducato.
A British colony on the Malayan peninsula.
Incorporated into Malaysia in 1963.Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 Malaysian dollar.
An independent Kingdom in the Himalayas to the North of India.
Currency :
- 1881 16 annas = 1 rupee.
- 1907 64 pice = 1 rupee.
- 1954 100 paisa = 1 rupee.
A kingdom on the North Sea on the North West of Europe.
Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 gulden (florin).
Netherlands Islands in the Caribean Sea.
Formerly a Dutch colony in the Est Indies.
Included Java, Sumatra and Parts of Borneo and New Guinea.
Renamed Indonesia in 1948.
Independent in 1949. Netherlands New Guinea was Dutch until 1962 when it was under control of the U.N.
Joined Indonesia in 1963.
The Western half of New Guinea.
Governed by Netherlands until 1962 when the U.N. took control.
Now part of Indonesia known as West Irian.Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 gulden.
One of the Leeward Islands.
Currency :
- 1861 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1980 100 cents = 1 dollar.
An Eastern province of Canada.
Currency :
- 1851 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1860 100 cents = 1 dollar.
A French Overseas Territory in the South Pacific to the East of Australia.
Includes East Caledonia and smaller islands.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
An island off the East coast of Canada. Merged with Canada in 1949.
Currency :
- 1851 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1866 100 cents = 1 dollar.
Part of the island of New Guinea.
Formerly a German colony, occupied by Australian forces between 1914 and 1918.
Now merged with Papua and administered by Australia.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
A group of islands in the Pacific Ocean to the east of Australia.
Formerly under joint control of Britain and France.
Became independent in 1980 and was renamed to Vanuatu.Currency :
- 1908 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1938 100 gold centimes = 1 gold franc.
- 1977 100 centimes = 1 New Hebrides franc.
A Boer republic originally part of Zululand.
Incorporated in to South Africa in 1888 and then to Natal in 1903.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean to the East of Australia.
Currency :
- 1855 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1967 100 cents = 1 dollar.
A republic in Central America.
Independent in 1821.Currency :
- 1862 100 centavos = 1 peso (paper currency).
- 1912 100 centavos de cordoba = 1 peso de cordoba (gold currency).
- 1925 100 centavos = 1 cordoba.
A district on the West coast of Africa.
Later absorbed into South Nigeria.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
An area to the South of the Sahara. Formerley part of French West Africa. Became a independent in 1919, a French community in 1958 and a Republic in 1960.
Currency :
- 1921 100 centimes = 1 franc.
- 1973 100 kobo = 1 naira.
A former British colony on the West coast of Africa.
Includes North Nigeria, South Nigeria and Lagos.
Now divided into three regions of North Nigeria, Western Nigeria, Eastern Nigeria and Lagos.
Became independent in 1960 and a republic in 1963.
The Eastern region known as Biafra joined Nigeria in 1970 after troops invaded.Currency :
- 1914 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1973 100 kobo = 1 naira.
Formerly a French West Africa colony located to the South West of the Sahara.
Became independent from 1919.
Rejoined and used stamps of French West Africa between 1944 and 1959.
Became a republic within the French community in 1958.
Independent in 1960.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
A remote island that is part of the kingdom of Tonga
Currency :
- 100 seniti = 1 pa'anga.
One of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific.
Formerly a dependency of New Zealand it became self governing in 1974.Currency :
- 1902 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1967 100 cents = 1 dollar.
A small island to the East of New South Wales, Australia.
Became Self Governing in 1960.Currency :
- 1947 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1966 100 cents = 1 Australian dollar.
A territory in North Borneo.
Joined Malaysia in 1963 and was renamed Sabah in 1964.Currency :
- 100 cents = 1 Malasian dollar.
Part of Great Britain which is now referred to as the United Kingdom.
Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound sterling.
- 1971 100 new pence = 1 pound.
Created in 1868 incorporating Bremen, Brunswick, Hamburg, Lubeck, Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Prussia, Saxony.
Became part of German Reichspost from 1871.
Used German stamps from 1872.Currency :
- 30 groschen = 1 thaler; 60 kreuzer = 1 gulden.
An area next to Finland, temporarily independent from Russia.
Currency :
- 100 pennia = 1 mark.
Situated on the West coast of Africa.
Joined Nigeria in 1914.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
A territory in Central Africa North of Zambesi.
Part of the Central African Federation from 1954 to 1963.
Became independent on 24 October 1964.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
Used by anti-bolshevist armies in the Russian Civil War between 1918 and 1920.
Currency :
- 100 kopeks = 1 rouble.
Currency :
- 1855 120 skilling = 1 speciedaler.
- 1877 100 ore = 1 krone.
An island to the North West of Madagascar.
Became a French Protectorate in 1840.
In 1901 it became part of the Madagascan colony.Currency :
- 100 centimes = 1 franc.
An Eastern province of Canada.
Currency :
- 1851 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
- 1859 100 cents = 1 dollar.
Northern part of Mozambique under Portugese control until 1894 when a Charter was granted to the Nyassa Company to control the area.
In 1929 it rejoined Mozambique.Currency :
- 1898 reis.
- 1918 centavos.
A protectorate in Central Africa.
Formerly known as British Central Africa.
Part of the Central African Federation from 1954 to 1963.
Became independent in July 1964 and renamed Malawi.Currency :
- 12 pence = 1 shilling; 20 shillings = 1 pound.
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