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The Lebanese lira uses £L (before numerals) or L.L. (after numerals) in Latin and ل.ل. in Arabic. The Syrian lira uses £S (before numerals) or L.S. (after numerals) in Latin and ل.س in Arabic. The Italian lira had no official sign, but the abbreviations L. and Lit. and the symbols ₤ (two bars), £ (one bar) were all commonly used.
The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar, [2] whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as ) standing for libra, a Roman pound of silver.
By the time the Bank was founded in 1694 the £ sign was in common use. [3] However, the simple letter L, in lower- or uppercase, was used to represent the pound in printed books and newspapers until well into the 19th century. [4] In the blackletter type used until the seventeenth century, [5] the letter L is rendered as .
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'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The currency's symbol is ' £ ' , a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' ( L {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}} ) (from libra ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.
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The lira or pound [a] is the currency of Lebanon. It was formerly divided into 100 piastres (or qirsh in Arabic) but, because of high inflation during the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), subunits were discontinued.
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Egyptian pound: EGP Egypt £E or ج.م or L.E. Lebanese pound [10] LBP Lebanon £L and ل.ل [10] [11] Sudanese pound: SDG Sudan: SDG or ج.س Syrian pound [12] SYP Syria £S [13] Omani rial [14] OMR Oman: ر.ع [15] Qatari riyal [16] QAR Qatar: ر.ق [17] Saudi riyal [18] SAR Saudi Arabia: SR [19] Yemeni rial [20] YER Yemen ﷼ [21] Israeli ...