Pound Sterling in Australian Dollar

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.

AUD Australian Dollar

Country of application:
Australia, Kiribati, Cocos Islands, Nauru, Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Heard and McDonald

Coin denominations in circulation:
2 and 1 dollar, 50, 20, 10 and 5 cents.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
100, 50, 20, 10 and 5 dollars.

History reference:
The Australian dollar is the currency in Australia, including its outer territories. : Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Island. It is officially used as the currency of three ind...ependent Pacific island nations: Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. It is legal tender in Australia. Since 1988, a special plastic material has been used in the manufacture of Australian dollar banknotes. Australian dollar banknotes are printed at the state-owned factories of the Royal Australian Mint, located in Melbourne and Perth. Australian coins have a regular round shape. The exception is a coin of fifty cents, made in the form of a regular tetrahedron. On the obverse of the coins there is an image of the profile portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (as the official head of the Commonwealth of Australia), and on the reverse there are animals of Australia.