Friday, 24 May 2013
The pound sterling (ISO code: GBP), commonly known simply as the
pound, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, the British Crown
dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, the British Overseas
Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British
Antarctic Territory and Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha . It is
subdivided into 100 pence . A number of nations that do not use sterling also
have currencies called the "pound".It is the oldest currency in the world in use.
The pound sterling is also
used in the Isle of Man (alongside the Manx pound), Gibraltar (alongside the
Gibraltar pound), the Falkland Islands (alongside the Falkland Islands pound),
and Saint Helena and Ascension Island in
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (alongside the Saint Helena
pound).
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