Pound Sterling in Mexican Peso

GBP Pound Sterling

Country of application:
United Kingdom, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Coin denominations in circulation:
1 pound sterling, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 pence, 1 penny.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1 pound sterling.

History reference:
The British pound sterling is the official currency of Great Britain. Bank code - GBP. Sterling in the 12th century was called English silver coins. 240 sterling weighed just over 373 grams - that wa...s a pound. In Latin, pondus means weight, heaviness. That is, initially the pound sterling really meant "a pound of pure silver." There is a visible connection with the Old English lexeme steorling - "asterisk". It was the stars that depicted the silver coins produced in Normandy. Easterling Silver (literally: silver from the eastern lands) - hard-wearing coins made of a durable silver alloy, created in the north of modern Germany - those territories were formerly called Easterling.

MXN Mexican Peso

Country of application:
Mexico

Coin denominations in circulation:
100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1 pesos, 50, 20, 10 and 5 centavos.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1000, 500, 200, 100, 50 and 20 Mexican pesos.

History reference:
The Mexican peso is the currency of the state of Mexico. In the 19th century, Spanish gold and silver coins of the Latin American region were one of the worlds currencies and were widely used in trad...e. In 1863, there was a transition to the decimal system: a coin of 8 reais (“Spanish dollar”) was called the peso