Pound (currency)

Summary: As a unit of currency, the term pound originates from the value of a Troy pound weight of high purity silver, and is or was the currency unit of a number of countries: Cyprus Egypt Gibraltar Lebanon Malta Republic of Ireland - see Irish pound Syria - see Syrian pound ...

Pound (currency)

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As a unit of currency, the term pound originates from the value of a Troy pound weight of high purity silver, and is or was the currency unit of a number of countries:

The symbol for the pound, particularly with respect to the pound sterling legal tender in the UK and her possessions, and the Irish Pound, is a script capital letter L pierced horizontally with an endash or an equal: � The same symbol was used in Italy for the lira before its replacement by the euro.

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