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  2. Fifty pence (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    The reverse of the coin, designed by Christopher Ironside, and used from 1969 to 2008, is a seated Britannia alongside a lion, holding an olive branch in her left hand and a trident in her right, accompanied by either NEW PENCE (1969–1981) or FIFTY PENCE (1982–2008) above Britannia, with the numeral 50 underneath the seated figure.

  3. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    By 1601 it was decreed that one troy ounce or 480 grains of sterling silver be minted into 62 pennies (i.e. each penny weighed 7.742 grains). By 1696, the currency had been seriously weakened by an increase in clipping during the Nine Years' War [10] to the extent that it was decided to recall and replace all hammered silver coinage in ...

  4. List of British banknotes and coins - Wikipedia

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    Prior to decimalisation in 1971, there were 12 pence (written as 12d) in a shilling (written as 1s or 1/-) and 20 shillings in a pound, written as £1 (occasionally "L" was used instead of the pound sign, £). There were therefore 240 pence in a pound. For example, 2 pounds 14 shillings and 5 pence could have been written as £2 14s 5d or £2/14/5

  5. Fifty pounds (British coin) - Wikipedia

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    The fifty pound coin (£50) is a commemorative denomination of sterling coinage.Issued for the first time by the Royal Mint in 2015 and sold at face value, fifty pound coins hold legal tender status but are intended as collectors' items and are not found in general circulation. 100,000 coins will be produced in limited edition presentation.

  6. Commemorative coins of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    During the decimal era, crowns were converted to twenty-five pence. 50p and £2 coins made after 1996 circulate normally and can be found in change. Usually about 5 million of each of these are the commemorative issue, the rest being of the standard design. Since 1982 all of these have also been produced as sterling silver and 22 carat gold proofs.

  7. Penny (British pre-decimal coin) - Wikipedia

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    The British pre-decimal penny was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 240 of one pound or 1 ⁄ 12 of one shilling.Its symbol was d, from the Roman denarius.It was a continuation of the earlier English penny, and in Scotland it had the same monetary value as one pre-1707 Scottish shilling.

  8. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    40 pence or 1 ⁄ 6 th pound sterling made one Troy Ounce (480 grains, 31.1035 g) of sterling silver. It was approximately on a par with France's livre parisis of one French ounce (30.594 g), and in 1524 it would also be the model for a standardised German currency in the form of the Guldengroschen , which also weighed 1 German ounce of silver ...

  9. £sd - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation originates from the Latin currency denominations librae, solidi, and denarii. [1] In the United Kingdom, these were referred to as pounds, shillings, and pence (pence being the plural of penny). Under this system, there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings, or 240 pence, in a pound.

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