The sterling was originally a silver penny. 240 of them made a pound.
pound sterling (plural pounds sterling)
- The currency of the United Kingdom.
- 1668 July 3rd, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 547
- Andrew Houſtoun and Adam Muſhet, being Tackſmen of the Excize, did Imploy Thomas Rue to be their Collector, and gave him a Sallary of 30. pound Sterling for a year.
currency of the UK
- Albanian: sprovuar funt m
- Arabic: جُنَيْه m (junayh), جُنَيْه إِسْتَرْلِينِيّ m (junayh ʔistarlīniyy)
- Armenian: ֆունտ ստեռլինգ (funt steṙling)
- Azerbaijani: funt sterlinq
- Belarusian: фунт стэ́рлінгаў m (funt stérlinhaŭ)
- Bulgarian: брита́нска ли́ра f (británska líra)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 英鎊／英镑 (zh) (Yīngbàng)
- Czech: libra (cs) f, britská libra f, libra šterlinků f
- Danish: britiske pund, pund
- Dutch: pond sterling (nl), pond (nl)
- Estonian: naelsterling
- Faroese: pund n
- Finnish: punta (fi), Englannin punta
- French: livre sterling (fr) m
- Galician: libra esterlina f
- Georgian: გირვანქა სტერლინგი (girvanka sṭerlingi)
- German: Pfund Sterling n, Pfund (de) n
- Greek: λίρα στερλίνα f (líra sterlína)
- Hebrew: לירה שטרלינג
- Hindi: पाउंड स्टर्लिंग (pāuṇḍ sṭarliṅg), पाउंड (hi) (pāuṇḍ)
- Hungarian: font sterling (hu)
- Icelandic: breskt pund, pund (is)
- Indonesian: paun (id)
- Irish: punt steirling
- Italian: lira sterlina f
- Japanese: ポンド (ja) (pondo)
- Korean: 파운드 (ko) (paundeu)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sterlîn (ku)
- Latvian: sterliņu mārciņa f
- Lithuanian: svaras sterlingų m
- Macedonian: британска фунта f (britanska funta)
- Manx: punt Sostynagh m
- Mongolian: фунт стерлинг (funt sterling)
- Ngazidja Comorian: pauni class 9/10
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: britisk pund, pund (no)
- Persian: پوند استرلینگ (pond esterling)
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: pownd sturleng
- Polish: funt (pl) m, funt sterling m, funt szterling m, sterling (pl) m, szterling m
- Portuguese: libra esterlina f
- Romanian: liră sterlină (ro) f
- Russian: фунт сте́рлингов (ru) m (funt stérlingov), фунт (ru) m (funt)
- Scottish Gaelic: punnd sasannach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: британска фунта f
- Roman: britanska funta f
- Slovak: libra f, britská libra f, libra šterlingov f
- Slovene: funt šterling m
- Spanish: libra esterlina (es) f
- Swedish: pund (sv)
- Thai: ปอนด์ (bpon)
- Turkish: İngiliz sterlini
- Ukrainian: фунт сте́рлінгів m (funt stérlinhiv)
- Uzbek: funt sterling
- Vietnamese: bảng Anh
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