Euro in Pound Sterling

EUR Euro

Country of application:
European Union, Austria, Aland Islands, Andorra, Belgium, Vatican, Guadeloupe, Guiana, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mayotte, Malta, Martinique, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Reunion, San Marino, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Finland, France, French Southern and Antarctic Territories

Coin denominations in circulation:
2 and 1 euro, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 cent.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 euros.

History reference:
The Euro is a world currency on a par with the US dollar. It is also a reserve currency (along with the dollar, pound sterling, Japanese yen, Chinese yuan and Swiss franc). The euro symbol, €, is the... symbol for the Greek letter epsilon. According to the standards, the sign is printed in yellow on a blue background. The sign symbolizes Europe, and two parallel lines denote reliability and stability. Sometimes a character is written with one stroke instead of two. Euro is the official currency of 19 EU countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Malta).

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.