• Britannia coins are also produced. Some territories outside the United Kingdom, which use the pound sterling, produce their own coinage, with the same denominations...
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  • by the British in 1833. Initially, sterling coin circulated, in units of a pound subdivided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Specific issues of banknotes...
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    Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. The pound (sign: £) is the main unit of sterling...
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  • The British two pound coin (£2) is a denomination of sterling coinage. Its obverse has featured the profile of Queen Elizabeth II since the coin’s introduction...
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  • The British one pound (£1) coin is a denomination of sterling coinage. Its obverse bears the Latin engraving ELIZABETH II D G REG (Dei Gratia Regina) F...
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  • for the island. Initially, sterling coin circulated on Saint Helena, in units of a pound divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. That was supplemented...
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  • issue of sterling banknotes and coins, in a similar way to the banknotes issued in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland (see Banknotes of the pound sterling)...
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  • The pound (sign: £; ISO code: GIP) is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins...
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  • into sterling in 1707 at a ratio of 12 to 1.) This relationship made it possible for Irish copper coins to circulate with English silver coins, since...
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    The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British...
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    The British sixpence (/ˈsɪkspəns/) piece, sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄40 of one pound...
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    the pound sterling since the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Like the pound sterling, it was subdivided into 20 shillings (abbreviation s or /) each of 12...
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  • adopted the pound sterling as Jersey's sole official legal tender, although French copper coins continued to circulate alongside British silver coins, with...
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  • The pound (Manx: Punt Manninagh; abbreviation: IMP; sign: £) is the currency of the Isle of Man, at parity with sterling. The Manx pound is divided into...
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    and E£1 coins were introduced, with gold 50 PT coins issued in 1839. Copper 10 para coins were introduced in 1853, although the silver coin continued...
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    The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄20 of one pound, or twelve pence...
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    [citation needed] By the time of James III, one pound Scots was valued at five shillings sterling.[citation needed] Silver coins were issued denominated...
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    the £sd accounting system had its origins in sterling, the Canadian pound was never at par with sterling's pound. In North America, the scarcity of British...
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  • The one hundred pound coin (£100) is a commemorative denomination of sterling coinage. Issued for the first time by the Royal Mint in 2015 and sold at...
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    pound equal to 16 shillings sterling and one pound sterling equal to 25 Australian shillings. Coins of the Australian pound also circulated freely in New...
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  • Since 2017, coins of the Isle of Man have been minted by the Tower Mint. Due to matching appearance and value of pound sterling coins, these coins often appear...
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  • Jody Clark (category Coin designers)
    the Royal Mint. He designed the fifth and final portrait of Queen Elizabeth II to feature on coins of the pound sterling, and that portrait was the sixth...
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  • The fifty pound coin (£50) is a commemorative denomination of sterling coinage. Issued for the first time by the Royal Mint in 2015 and sold at face value...
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    Coins of the pound sterling Sixpence And, indeed, until decimalisation in 1971, at which time a new penny was introduced worth 2.4 times the value of...
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    small amounts of manganese. In the past, true silver coins were debased with cupronickel, such as coins of the pound sterling from 1947 onward having their...
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    Britannia (redirect from The Britannias)
    on Roman coins of the 2nd century AD, the classical national allegory was revived in the early modern period. On coins of the pound sterling issued by...
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  • Elizabeth II Coins of the pound sterling Penny-farthing (bicycle) C. Wilson Peck notes that the royal farthing tokens "were not coin of the realm and could...
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    standard coins of the pound sterling. When Malta became a British protectorate in 1800, the local monetary standard was the Maltese scudo issued by the Knights...
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  • introduced the Cypriot pound in 1879. It had the same value as the pound sterling, and replaced Turkish currency at a rate of £C 1 to 180 piastres. The Cypriot...
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    in 1971, Britain used the Carolingian monetary system, wherein the largest unit was a pound sterling of 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Each penny was...
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