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  2. History of money - Wikipedia

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    Early history of banking in England. London: R. S. King (1929). Sehgal, Kabir (2015). Coined: The Rich Life of Money and How Its History Has Shaped Us. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1455578528.. Vilar, Pierre. A History of Gold and Money, 1450 to 1920 (1960). online. Weatherford, Jack. The History of Money. (New York: Crown Publishers ...

  3. Banking in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    As of 11 October 2008, the British banks have short-term liabilities equal to 156% of GDP or 368% of the British national debt, while the average leverage ratio (assets/net worth) is 24 to 1. [9] The Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 calls for a paradigmatic shift toward the principle adopted by the US of risk averse strategies. This ...

  4. List of British banknotes and coins - Wikipedia

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    The origin of £/, s, and d were the Latin terms Libra, meaning a pound weight (with the £ sign developing as an elaborate L), solidus (pl. solidi), 20 of which made up one Libra, and denarius (pl. denarii), 240 of which made up one Libra with 12 being equal to one solidus. These terms and divisions of currency were in use from the 7th century.

  5. Pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    British coinage timeline: 1968: The first decimal coins were introduced. These were cupro-nickel 5p and 10p coins which were the same size as, equivalent in value to, and circulated alongside, the one shilling coin and the florin (two shilling coin) respectively.

  6. History of the English penny (c. 600 – 1066) - Wikipedia

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    The history of Anglo-Saxon coinage spans more than five centuries, from the end of Roman rule in Britain in the 5th century, down to the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066.

  7. History of banking - Wikipedia

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    These societies regarded inanimate matter as alive, like plants, animals and people, and capable of reproducing itself. Hence if you lent 'food money', or monetary tokens of any kind, it was legitimate to charge interest. [122] Food money in the shape of olives, dates, seeds or animals was lent out as early as c. 5000 BCE, if not

  8. History of the English penny (1066–1154) - Wikipedia

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    William I penny, minted at Lewes Cut penny of William I, minted at Norwich. Following the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror continued the Anglo-Saxon coinage system. As a penny was a fairly large unit of currency at the time, when small change was needed a penny would be cut in half or into quarters at the mint of issue.

  9. Pound (currency) - Wikipedia

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    The term was adopted in England from the weight [a] of silver used to make 240 pennies, [6] and eventually spread to British colonies all over the world. While silver pennies were produced seven centuries earlier, the first pound coin was minted under Henry VII in 1489. [5]