Pound (currency)

Pound (English pound, Italian lira, French livre ) is the name of various currencies. The currency symbol £ or ₤ often used.

History

With the proliferation of Unit Weight pounds ( weight) in the whole of Europe, it became the namesake of numerous coins and currency systems. Charlemagne laid down in his coinage, that of a Carolingian pound of silver, 240 pennies ( pence ) must be marked. This system has been preserved in the UK and Ireland in pound sterling or Irish pound until 1971.

In Berlin, the term "pound " for 20 Mark was at least until the 1990s, in Cologne to the transition to the Euro known. This is because at the time of the gold standard one pound sterling equivalent to about 20 Reichsmark in the Empire.

Guinee, Guinea Guinée or is an old synonym for pound, which is sometimes still used in England in a sophisticated way of speaking. In Egypt, it is the official name of the Egyptian pound.

Today's currencies

  • Egyptian Pound (Egypt)
  • Falkland Islands pound ( Falkland Islands)
  • Gibraltar Pound (Gibraltar)
  • Lebanese Pound (Lebanon)
  • St. Helena pound (St. Helena )
  • British Pound Sterling (United Kingdom)
  • Sudanese Pound (Sudan and South Sudan even temporarily )
  • Syrian Lira ( Syria)
  • Turkish lira ( Turkey)

There also exist the following domestic currencies of the pound sterling:

  • Guernsey Pound (Guernsey)
  • Jersey pound ( Jersey)
  • Isle- of-Man -pound (Isle of Man)

Historical currencies

  • Australian pound ( until 1966 Australia)
  • Bermuda pound ( until 1970 Bermuda)
  • Biafran pound ( 1967-1970 Biafra )
  • Gambian pound ( until 1971 Gambia)
  • Ghanaian pound ( 1958-1965 Ghana)
  • Fiji pound ( until 1969 Fiji)
  • Irish pound (until 2001 Ireland)
  • Israeli pound ( until 1980 Israel)
  • Italian Lira (until 2001 Italy)
  • Jamaica -pound ( until 1969 Jamaica)
  • Canadian pound ( until 1858 Canada )
  • Libyan pound ( 1951-1971 Libya)
  • Livre ( France until 1795 )
  • Lliura mallorquina ( to 1869 Mallorca)
  • Malawi pound ( until 1971 Malawi)
  • Maltese Lira (until 2007 Malta)
  • Guinea -pound ( 1915-1966 Territory New Guinea)
  • New Zealand pound ( 1840-1967 New Zealand)
  • Nigerian pound ( 1907-1972 Nigeria)
  • Palestine pound ( 1927-1948 Mandate of Palestine )
  • Rhode Sisches pounds ( 1970 to 1980 Rhodesia )
  • Rhodesia and Nyasaland - pound ( 1955-1964 Rhodesia and Nyasaland )
  • Samoan pound ( 1914-1967 Samoa)
  • Solomon Islands pound ( 1899-1966 Solomon Islands)
  • Zambian Pound ( 1964-1968 Zambia)
  • Sammarinese lira ( to 2001 San Marino)
  • South African Pond ( 1891-1902 South African Republic )
  • South African pound ( until 1961 South Africa)
  • Südrhodesisches pound ( until 1955 Southern Rhodesia )
  • Tonga pound ( until 1967 Tonga )
  • Vatican lira (until 2001 the Vatican City)
  • West African pound (formerly British West Africa)
  • Cyprus pound (until 2007 Cyprus)
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