Pound Sterling in Aruban florin

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.

AWG Aruban florin

Country of application:
Aruba

Coin denominations in circulation:
5, 10, 25, 50 cents, 1, 2½, 5 florins.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500 florins.

History reference:
The Aruban Florin was first seen in January 1986 when it replaced the Guild of the Netherlands Antilles at 1:1. The Aruban Florin was introduced after Aruba received its separate status from the King...dom of the Netherlands in 1986. Previously, the Antillean guilder was the currency of Aruba. Until March 1, 2012, in the All-Russian Classifier of Currencies it was called the Aruban guilder.