Pound Sterling in Czech Koruna

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.

CZK Czech Koruna

Country of application:
Czech

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

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
5,000, 2,000, 1,000, 500, 200 and 100 kroons.

History reference:
The Czech crown - appeared along with the Slovak crown during the collapse of Czechoslovakia in 1993 and to this day is the national currency of the Czech Republic in the forex market. The name "crow...n" was coined by the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. The modern Czech crown is the same age as the independent Czech Republic. The reason for the emergence of a new currency was the collapse of Czechoslovakia. It should be noted that the first mention of the Czech crown dates back to the 12th century. That is why the word "crown" is still considered not only the name of money, but also the crown - the symbol of the ancient Czech kingdom. For the first time, money appeared on the lands of modern Czech Republic in 120 BC. The tribe, located in the place where today is Prague, minted gold coins for trade with neighbors. The Czech crown became the national currency of the Czech lands only at the end of the 19th century. After Austria-Hungary collapsed in 1918, Czechoslovakia appeared on the map of Europe.