Pound Sterling in Singapore 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.

SGD Singapore Dollar

Country of application:
Singapore

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

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
10 thousand, 1 thousand, 100, 50, 10, 5, 2 dollars.

History reference:
The Singapore dollar is the national currency of Singapore. Singapore was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in February 1819. Until June 1823, Singapore was under British colonial rule. During this per...iod, Singapore became an important center of transit trade in Southeast Asia and a major port city. In circulation in Singapore, the first coins appeared in 1824, minted by the Calcutta Mint in India. The coins were made of copper with a face value of 1/3 cent and silver with a face value of 1/30 dollar. Between 1845 and 1939 Singapore used the Straits dollar. After that it was replaced by the Malayan dollar, and from 1953 by the Malaya and British Borneo dollar, which were issued by the Board of Commissioners of the Currency in Malaya and British Borneo.