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A comprehensive overview of the history and evolution of British currency, from pre-decimal to decimal coins and banknotes. Learn about the values, designs, and origins of various coins and notes, as well as their common names and nicknames.
Learn about the history, design and issuance of the pound sterling banknotes, the official currency of the UK and some of its territories. Find out the current and past denominations, colours, dimensions and features of the £10 note and other banknotes.
Learn about the history, design and composition of the UK's circulating and commemorative coins denominated in pennies and pounds. Find out the specifications and dates of the one pound coin, which was redesigned in 2017 with a 12-sided shape and a hologram.
Pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom and some of its territories. The symbol for pound is £ and the subunit is pence, abbreviated as p. Learn about the history, coins, banknotes, and monetary policy of pound sterling.
Learn about the history, design and features of the British one pound coin, a denomination of sterling coinage. Find out how to identify the different portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and the 12-sided coin introduced in 2017.
Learn about the history and value of the British crown, a silver coin worth 5 shillings or 60 pence. Find out how the crown evolved from a circulating currency to a commemorative coin, and see examples of different designs and mintages.
The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling and contains 0.2354 troy oz of pure gold. It has a diameter of 22 mm and a thickness of 1.52 mm, and was originally a circulating coin but is now a bullion coin.
A shilling was a British coin worth 12 pence until 1971, when it became 5 new pence. It was made of silver until 1946 and then of cupronickel until 1990.
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