Pound Sterling in US 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.

USD US Dollar

Country of application:
US, American Samoa, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands (US), Timor Leste, Haiti, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Ecuador

Coin denominations in circulation:
$ 1, 50, 25, 10, 5 and 1 cent.

Denominations of banknotes in circulation:
100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2, 1 dollar.

History reference:
The US dollar is the countrys official currency and one of the worlds reserve currencies. The name "dollar" is secondary to the name of the European silver coin. Its appearance falls on the period an...d 1775 to 1783 (during the American Revolutionary War). Initially, dollars were only in the form of coins