Currency was pounds, shillings, florins, and pence and gold sovereigns were minted in Australia ,South Africa and Canada to set gold standard, that even today these gold sovereigns are popular with coin dealers

These colonies make the Empire rich, from The Jewels of India to sugar cane for rum in the Caribbean to gold in Australia and teas and herbs from Ceylon and Africa

. Even today coin dealers source colonial coins in mint or circulated conditions for these colonial countries that include,

British India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Ceylon, East Africa, Borneo , Rhodesia, West Africa, Sarawak, Gibraltar.