The phrase "a separate currency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different forms of money that are distinct from one another, often in the context of economics or finance.
Example: "In the region, they decided to adopt a separate currency to facilitate trade with neighboring countries."
Alternatives: "an independent currency" or "a distinct currency".
"It would make no sense for the Westminster government to force its own businesses to be in a separate currency when Scotland doesn't want that".
Hong Kong carried on as an Anglophone entrepôt, almost a city-state unto itself, with a separate currency, visa-free entry for most Westerners, three-pronged British electrical outlets, and an uncensored press and Internet.
Why on earth would a UK government after a yes vote want to force its own businesses into a separate currency against their will and against the will of Scotland?
The Daily Record reported that former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars, Yes Scotland chairman Dennis Canavan and Scottish Green party co-convenor Patrick Harvie have all urged Mr Independence to adopt a separate currency.
Joining will save money (running a separate currency is costly) and, most important, end the risk of speculative attack a nasty business for a small open economy.The next question is whether new members would be good for the euro area.
In both Quebec and Scotland, independence is mostly a movement of the left, and a separate currency would create the ever-present temptation to use the printing press to accommodate fiscal expansion and industrial policy.
But while already partly out of the euro zone, Cyprus still does not enjoy the main advantage of having a wholly separate currency: the freedom to devalue.
Harvie, the most senior non-Scottish National party politician on the board of the official Yes Scotland pro-independence campaign, said he favoured a new, separate currency pegged to sterling, either on independence in 2016 or soon afterwards.
What we need now from the SNP isn't so much a Plan B but a Plan A. Now that using the Pound is off the table, would we be rushing to join the Euro or set up an unproven separate currency?
Don't ever call someone from The Republic of Ireland "British," The Republic of Ireland is a separate country with separate currency and government, despite the fact that it is joined to Northern Ireland which is part of the UK.
"It seems that the two options for an independent Scotland are either a currency union with the rest of the UK, or a separate Scottish currency – neither of these options are without risk for our business," it said.
