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  2. List of British currencies - Wikipedia

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    Manx pound (local, government-issued sterling banknotes and coins) Issued by license of the Bank of England to the Isle of Man Treasury Falkland Islands; Falkland Islands pound (parity with pound sterling) Government of the Falkland Islands Gibraltar; Gibraltar pound (parity with pound sterling) Euro accepted unofficially in most establishments

  3. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound is the main unit of sterling, [4] [c] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [7] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling. [4]

  4. £sd - Wikipedia

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    The British pound sterling and Irish pound were among the last to be decimalised, on 15 February 1971. In places where £sd was used, there were several approaches to decimalisation: The pound remained the base unit (in Malta, using the Maltese name "lira"), but was subdivided into new fractional units of 1 ⁄ 100 of a pound.

  5. Banknotes of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha.

  6. Pound (currency) - Wikipedia

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    Pound is a name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning 'by weight'.

  7. Bank of England £5 note - Wikipedia

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    The Bank of England £5 note, also known as a fiver, is a sterling banknote.It is the smallest denomination of banknote currently issued by the Bank of England.On 5 June 2024 and 13 September 2016, a new polymer note was introduced, featuring the images of King Charles III and the late Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse and a portrait of Winston Churchill on the reverse.

  8. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The English silver penny first appeared in the 8th century CE in adoption of Western Europe's Carolingian monetary system wherein 12 pence made a shilling and 20 shillings made a pound. The weight of the English penny was fixed at 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 troy grains (about 1.46 grams) by Offa of Mercia, an 8th-century contemporary of Charlemagne; 240 ...

  9. Currency - Wikipedia

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    A currency [a] is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. [1] [2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. [3]

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