Cuban convertible peso in Pound Sterling

CUC Cuban convertible peso

Country of application:
Cuba

Coin denominations in circulation:
5, 10, 25, 50 centavos, 1 Cuban Convertible Peso.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Cuban Convertible Pesos.

History reference:
On October 23, 2013, a message was published by the Council of Ministers of Cuba on agreeing on a schedule for the implementation of measures to unify the countrys monetary circulation, providing for... a gradual transition from a system of two currencies to a single Cuban currency[1]. On January 1, 2021, a large-scale reform was launched in the republic to abolish the dual monetary system, announced in December 2020 by Cuban President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel.[2] From the beginning of 2021, Cuba began to withdraw convertible pesos from circulation, giving citizens 180 days to exchange savings in banks for Cuban pesos at a rate of 1:24

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.