Pound Sterling in Lesotho loti

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.

LSL Lesotho loti

Country of application:
Lesotho

Coin denominations in circulation:
1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 lisente, 1, 2, 5 thresh.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
10, 20, 50, 100, 200 thresh.

History reference:
Loti, in pl. h. maloti is the currency of the Kingdom of Lesotho. From February 1961, the South African rand, issued to replace the South African pound, was in circulation in Lesotho. On January 19, ...1980, the first national currency was introduced - the loti, divided into 100 licentes and equal to the South African rand. This change was intended to ensure the economic and political independence of Lesotho from the Republic of South Africa, which in reality did not happen. The reverse side of the 50 licente coin contains the image of a rider on a horse, the 2 maloti coin is decorated with the image of five corn inflorescences, the reverse side of the 5 maloti coin is similarly decorated. On the front side of the 1 loti coin there is a portrait of the king of Lesotho, Moshen I, who in the first half of the 19th century. did everything to unite all the tribes that then lived on the territory of modern Lesotho, thereby ending internecine wars. Coins are mostly made of steel.