Pound (currency)
As a unit of currency, the term
pound originates from the value of a Troy
pound weight of high purity
silver, and is or was the currency unit of a number of countries:
The symbol for the pound, particularly with respect to the
pound sterling legal tender in the UK and her possessions, and the ROI punt, is a script capital letter L pierced horizontally with an endash or an equal:
£
The same symbol was used in
Italy for the
lira before its replacement by the
euro.