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£100 note: £100: in circulation Issued by Scottish and Northern-Irish banks only. £1,000,000 note: £1,000,000: non-circulating Also known as a "Giant". Used as backing for banknotes issued by Scottish and Northern Irish banks when exceeding the value of their 1845 reserves. The amount to be covered is over a billion pounds. [12]
Native currency Issuing authority England Wales British Antarctic Territory Tristan da Cunha South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Sterling. Bank of England Scotland; Local, privately-issued sterling banknotes
The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO 4217 currency code: GBP) is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, British Antarctic Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Tristan da Cunha. The Bank of England has a legal monopoly of banknote issuance in England and Wales.
Sterling (ISO code: GBP) is the currency of the United Kingdom and nine of its associated territories. [3] The pound ( sign: £ ) is the main unit of sterling, [ 4 ] [ c ] and the word pound is also used to refer to the British currency generally, [ 7 ] often qualified in international contexts as the British pound or the pound sterling .
Pound is a name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō , in which lībra is a noun meaning 'pound' and pondō is an adverb meaning ...
The introduction of decimal currency caused a new casual usage to emerge, where any value in pence is spoken using the suffix pee: e.g. "twenty-three pee" or, in the early years, "two-and-a-half pee" rather than the previous "tuppence-ha'penny". Amounts over a pound are normally spoken thus: "five pounds forty".
Currency ISO 4217 code Symbol or Abbrev. [2]Proportion of daily volume Change (2019–2022) April 2019 April 2022 U.S. dollar: USD $, US$ 88.3%: 88.5%: 0.2pp Euro
100 pesos oro/pesos dominicanos obverse 2000 (pesos oro) and 2011 (pesos dominicanos) ... 2011 (1 to 100 South Sudanese pounds); 2016 (20 South Sudanese pounds); 2018 ...