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Countries where a unit of the national currency is "pound" (dark blue) or "lira" (light blue) Pound is a name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression lībra pondō, "a pound by weight", in which lībra means 'scale' or 'balance' and pondō means 'pound' or 'weight'. The currency's symbol is '£', a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' (
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.