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2. Five pounds (gold coin) - Wikipedia

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   The five-pound and two-pound pieces did not circulate to any great extent, and were kept primarily as souvenirs. [21] Nevertheless, the 1887 issue made the five-pound piece the highest-denomination circulating coin in Britain. [20] A few of the 1887 five-pound coins were struck at the Sydney Mint and bear its mint mark S on the reverse. This is ...

3. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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   The weight of the English penny was fixed at 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 troy grains (about 1.46 grams) by Offa of Mercia, an 8th-century contemporary of Charlemagne; 240 pennies weighed 5,400 grains or a tower pound (different from the troy pound of 5,760 grains). The silver penny was the only coin minted for 500 years, from c. 780 to 1280.

4. Coin base weight - Wikipedia

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   The Carolingian Pound was superseded by what became the most common coin base weight in Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. This was the Cologne Mark of 233.779 grams of silver. [2] Silver coins of different weights were minted from this standard weight.

5. Pound (mass) - Wikipedia

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   The tower pound displayed as the weight of a pound sterling of 240 early silver pennies (original pennyweight) A tower pound is equal to 12 tower ounces and to 5,400 troy grains, which equals around 350 grams. [30] The tower pound is the historical weight standard that was used for England's coinage. [31]

6. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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   STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities. A stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds; in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds; in Scotland sixteen pounds. The Weights and Measures Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c.

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   A Canadian man who was allegedly caught with more than 370 pounds of cocaine has been charged with delivery of a controlled substance, 1,000 grams or more. ... combined value of $16.5 million in ...

8. Troy weight - Wikipedia

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   The standard British troy pound manufactured in 1758; it bears the abbreviation ℔ ("pound") and the letter "T" for troy. The troy pound (lb t) consists of twelve troy ounces [15] and thus is 5 760 grains (373.241 72 grams). (An avoirdupois pound is approximately 21.53% heavier at 7 000 grains (453.592 37 grams), and consists of sixteen ...

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