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  2. Pound sign - Wikipedia

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    The pound sign (£) is the symbol for the pound unit of sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom and its associated Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories and previously of Great Britain and of the Kingdom of England. The same symbol is used for other currencies called pound, such as the Egyptian and Syrian pounds.

  3. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    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] Sterling is the world's oldest currency in continuous use since its inception. [8]

  4. Currency symbol - Wikipedia

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    Sudanese pound also abbreviated £Sd in Latin script. Syrian pound also abbreviated £S, £Syr and SP in Latin script. £ pound Pound sterling: May be displayed with one or two bars, depending on typeface. U+00A3 £ POUND SIGN: SSP: pound South Sudanese pound: Also represented by £ [19] P: pula Botswana pula: Q: quetzal Guatemalan quetzal: q ...

  5. Number sign - Wikipedia

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    The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, [1] hash, [2] or pound sign. [3] The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔.

  6. 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

  7. Template:List of currency symbols - Wikipedia

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    Penny sterling, and the pegged pennies of Alderney, the Falklands, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Man and Saint Helena: Fraction The centesimal subdivision of a pound sterling, known as the "New Penny" when introduced in 1971 piastre: Lebanese and Syrian piastres A centesimal subdivision of the Lebanese and Syrian pounds ₱ peso ...

  8. 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.

  9. Sterling - Wikipedia

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    Sterling (marque), a British automobile brand, sold in the U.S. from 1987 to 1991; Sterling Optical; Sterling Plumbing, a brand of products from Kohler Co. Sterling Publishing, a publisher of nonfiction books; Sterling Software, a (now defunct) company co-founded by Sterling Williams; Sterling Sports Cars, an American automobile kit company