Pound (currency)

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The pound is a unit of currency, originally based upon the value of a Troy pound weight (Latin libra) of high purity silver, used in a number of countries:

• Cyprus pound
• Egyptian pound
• Lebanese pound
• Syrian pound
• British Pound sterling or GBP (Great Britain Pound), issued by the Bank of England for use in England and Wales, and related currencies issued in other parts of the British Isles and British overseas territories.
  • Saint Helenian pound
  • Falkland Islands pound
  • Isle of Man pound
  • Gibraltar pound
  • Guernsey pound
  • Jersey pound

There are also historic currencies called the pound:

• Irish pound, the former currency of the Republic of Ireland
• Australian pound
• New Zealand pound
• South African pound
• The Maltese pound, renamed the lira in 1983.

The symbol for the pound, particularly with respect to the pound sterling in the UK and its possessions, is a script capital letter L crossed by a horizontal bar or bars: £.

The word dinar is Arabic for "pound".

See also

• Italian lira, based on the Italian word for "pound"
• Livre tournois – French Tours Pound
• Livre Parisis – French Paris Pound
• Northern Ireland Pound
• Roman currency, from which the pound is derived.
• Pound Scots of Scotland