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For the sign "lb", see <a href="/wiki/Pound_(mass)" title="Pound (mass)">pound (mass)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="max-width:20em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 500%; line-height:1.3; font-weight:normal;">£</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ebebeb;"><div style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold; padding: 0.2em; line-height: 1.2em;">Pound sign</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">In <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+00A3</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">£</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">POUND SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&pound;</span>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ebebeb;">Currency</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pound_(currency)" title="Pound (currency)">Pound</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ebebeb;">Graphical variants</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span style="font-size:150%;">￡</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+FFE1</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">￡</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">FULLWIDTH POUND SIGN</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ebebeb;">Different from</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Different from</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+20A4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">₤</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Lira#Lira_sign" title="Lira">LIRA SIGN</a></span> <br /> <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0023</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">#</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">NUMBER SIGN</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="background:#ebebeb"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Currency_symbols" title="Category:Currency symbols">Category</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pound_sign_fonts.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pound_sign_fonts.svg/220px-Pound_sign_fonts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pound_sign_fonts.svg/330px-Pound_sign_fonts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Pound_sign_fonts.svg/440px-Pound_sign_fonts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="368" /></a><figcaption>The £ <a href="/wiki/Grapheme" title="Grapheme">grapheme</a> in a selection of <a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">fonts</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>pound sign</b> (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">£</span>) is the <a href="/wiki/Currency_symbol" title="Currency symbol">symbol</a> for the pound <a href="/wiki/Unit_of_account" title="Unit of account">unit</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">sterling</a> – the <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currency</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and its associated <a href="/wiki/Crown_Dependencies" title="Crown Dependencies">Crown Dependencies</a> and <a href="/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories" title="British Overseas Territories">British Overseas Territories</a> and previously of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a> and of the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a>. The same symbol is used for other currencies called <a href="/wiki/Pound_(currency)" title="Pound (currency)">pound</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pound" title="Egyptian pound">Egyptian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syrian_pound" title="Syrian pound">Syrian</a> pounds. The sign may be drawn with one or two bars depending on personal preference, but the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> has used the one-bar style exclusively on banknotes since 1975. </p><p>In the United States, "pound sign" refers to the symbol <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span> (<a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">number sign</a>). In Canada, ”pound sign” can mean <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">£</span> or <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The symbol derives from the upper case <a href="/wiki/Latin_letter" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin letter">Latin letter</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">L</span>, representing <i>libra pondo</i>, the basic unit of weight in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>, which in turn is derived from the <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> word <i>libra</i>, meaning <a href="/wiki/Weighing_scale" title="Weighing scale">scales</a> or a balance. The pound became an <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">English</a> unit of weight and in England became defined as the <a href="/wiki/Pound_(weight)#Tower_pound" class="mw-redirect" title="Pound (weight)">tower pound</a> (equivalent to 350 grams) of <a href="/wiki/Sterling_silver" title="Sterling silver">sterling silver</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ViewOfCoinage_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ViewOfCoinage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Mint_Museum" title="Royal Mint Museum">Royal Mint Museum</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>It is not known for certain when the horizontal line or lines, which indicate an abbreviation,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> first came to be drawn through the L. However, there is in the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England_Museum" title="Bank of England Museum">Bank of England Museum</a> a cheque dated 7 January 1661 with a clearly discernible £ sign. By the time the Bank was founded in 1694 the £ sign was in common use.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>However, the simple letter L, in lower- or uppercase, was used to represent the pound in printed books and newspapers until well into the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Blackletter" title="Blackletter">blackletter</a> type used until the seventeenth century,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the letter L is rendered as <span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="fraktur">L</mi> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f1cc2d02222bcba1e741979a145f0317df3cda81" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.548ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}"></span>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Usage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When used for sterling, the pound sign is placed before the numerals (e.g., £12,000) and separated from the following digits by no space or only a <a href="/wiki/Thin_space" title="Thin space">thin space</a>. In the UK, the sign is used without any prefix. In <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>, a disambiguating letter is added (<a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pound" title="Egyptian pound">E£</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or £E<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_pound" title="Lebanese pound">£L</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> respectively). In international banking and <a href="/wiki/Foreign_exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign exchange">foreign exchange</a> operations, the symbol is rarely used: the <a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217</a> currency code (e.g., GBP, EGP, etc.) is preferred.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_English_variants">Other English variants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Other English variants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Canadian_English" title="Canadian English">Canadian English</a>, the symbol <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">£</span> is called the pound sign. The symbol <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span> has several uses and is sometimes called the pound sign too, though it is most often known as the number sign.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (Telephone instructions for equipment manufactured in the United States often call <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span> the pound key.) </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>, the term "pound sign" usually refers to the symbol <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span> (<a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">number sign</a>), and the corresponding telephone key is called the "pound key".<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (As in Canada, the # symbol has many <a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">other uses</a>.) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historic_variants">Historic variants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Historic variants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Double_bar_style">Double bar style <span class="anchor" id="Lira"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Double bar style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Banknotes issued by the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a> since 1975 have used only the single bar style as a pound sign.<sup id="cite_ref-BoEoldnotes_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoEoldnotes-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BoE-FoI_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoE-FoI-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The bank used both the two-bar style (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">₤</span>) and the one-bar style (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">£</span>) (and sometimes a figure without any symbol whatever) more or less equally from 1725 to 1971 intermittently and sometimes concurrently.<sup id="cite_ref-BoEoldnotes_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoEoldnotes-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Typography" title="Typography">typography</a>, the symbols are <a href="/wiki/Allograph" title="Allograph">allographs</a> –  style choices –  when used to represent the pound; consequently fonts use <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00A3</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">£</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">POUND SIGN</span> (<a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>) <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code point</a> irrespective of which style chosen, (not <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+20A4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">₤</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;"><a href="/wiki/Lira#Lira_sign" title="Lira">LIRA SIGN</a></span> despite its similarity). It is a <a href="/wiki/Font_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Font design">font design</a> choice on how to draw the symbol at U+00A3.<sup id="cite_ref-BoE-FoI_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BoE-FoI-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although most <a href="/wiki/Computer_fonts" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer fonts">computer fonts</a> do so with one bar, the two-bar style is not rare, as may be seen in the illustration above. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CaslonSp.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CaslonSp.svg/220px-CaslonSp.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CaslonSp.svg/330px-CaslonSp.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/CaslonSp.svg/440px-CaslonSp.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="198" data-file-height="234" /></a><figcaption>Note the leading J of Jacquard</figcaption></figure> <p>In the eighteenth-century <a href="/wiki/Caslon" title="Caslon">Caslon</a> metal fonts, the pound sign was identical to an italic uppercase <a href="/wiki/J" title="J">J</a>, rotated 180 degrees.<sup id="cite_ref-Caslon's_punches_and_matrices_Howes_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Caslon's_punches_and_matrices_Howes-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Currencies_that_use_the_pound_sign">Currencies that use the pound sign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Currencies that use the pound sign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Egypt: <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pound" title="Egyptian pound">Egyptian pound</a></li> <li>Falkland Islands: <a href="/wiki/Falkland_Islands_pound" title="Falkland Islands pound">Falkland Islands pound</a></li> <li>Gibraltar: <a href="/wiki/Gibraltar_pound" title="Gibraltar pound">Gibraltar pound</a></li> <li>Guernsey: <a href="/wiki/Guernsey_pound" title="Guernsey pound">Guernsey pound</a></li> <li>Isle of Man: <a href="/wiki/Manx_pound" title="Manx pound">Manx pound</a></li> <li>Jersey: <a href="/wiki/Jersey_pound" title="Jersey pound">Jersey pound</a></li> <li>Saint Helena: <a href="/wiki/Saint_Helena_pound" title="Saint Helena pound">Saint Helena pound</a></li> <li>South Sudan: <a href="/wiki/South_Sudanese_pound" title="South Sudanese pound">South Sudanese pound</a></li> <li>Sudan: <a href="/wiki/Sudanese_pound" title="Sudanese pound">Sudanese pound</a></li> <li>Syria: <a href="/wiki/Syrian_pound" title="Syrian pound">Syrian pound</a></li> <li>United Kingdom: <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">Pound sterling</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_currencies">Former currencies</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Former currencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>American Colonies: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Connecticut_pound" title="Connecticut pound">Connecticut pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delaware_pound" title="Delaware pound">Delaware pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgia_pound" title="Georgia pound">Georgia pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maryland_pound" title="Maryland pound">Maryland pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire_pound" title="New Hampshire pound">New Hampshire pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_pound" title="New Jersey pound">New Jersey pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_York_pound" title="New York pound">New York pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina_pound" title="North Carolina pound">North Carolina pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_pound" title="Pennsylvania pound">Pennsylvania pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island_pound" title="Rhode Island pound">Rhode Island pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina_pound" title="South Carolina pound">South Carolina pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virginia_pound" title="Virginia pound">Virginia pound</a></li></ul></li> <li>Australia: <a href="/wiki/Australian_pound" title="Australian pound">Australian pound</a></li> <li>The Bahamas: <a href="/wiki/Bahamian_pound" title="Bahamian pound">Bahamian pound</a></li> <li>Bermuda: <a href="/wiki/Bermudian_pound" title="Bermudian pound">Bermudian pound</a></li> <li>British Mandatory Palestine: <a href="/wiki/Palestine_pound" title="Palestine pound">Palestine pound</a></li> <li>Canada: <a href="/wiki/Canadian_pound" title="Canadian pound">Canadian pound</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/New_Brunswick_pound" title="New Brunswick pound">New Brunswick pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotian_pound" title="Nova Scotian pound">Nova Scotian pound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island_pound" title="Prince Edward Island pound">Prince Edward Island pound</a></li></ul></li> <li>Cyprus: <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_pound" title="Cypriot pound">Cypriot pound</a></li> <li>Fiji: <a href="/wiki/Fijian_pound" title="Fijian pound">Fijian pound</a></li> <li>The Gambia: <a href="/wiki/Gambian_pound" title="Gambian pound">Gambian pound</a></li> <li>Ghana: <a href="/wiki/Ghanaian_pound" title="Ghanaian pound">Ghanaian pound</a></li> <li>Ireland: <a href="/wiki/Irish_pound" title="Irish pound">Irish pound</a></li> <li>Israel: <a href="/wiki/Israeli_pound" title="Israeli pound">Israeli pound</a></li> <li>Malta: <a href="/wiki/Maltese_pound" class="mw-redirect" title="Maltese pound">Maltese pound</a></li> <li>Newfoundland: <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_pound" title="Newfoundland pound">Newfoundland pound</a></li> <li>New Zealand: <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_pound" title="New Zealand pound">New Zealand pound</a></li> <li>Rhodesia: <a href="/wiki/Rhodesian_pound" title="Rhodesian pound">Rhodesian pound</a></li> <li>South Africa: <a href="/wiki/South_African_pound" title="South African pound">South African pound</a></li> <li>Tonga: <a href="/wiki/Tongan_pound" title="Tongan pound">Tongan pound</a></li> <li>Western Samoa: <a href="/wiki/Western_Samoan_pound" title="Western Samoan pound">Western Samoan pound</a></li> <li>Yemen : <a href="/wiki/Yemeni_dinar" title="Yemeni dinar">Yemeni dinar</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_with_computers">Use with computers <span class="anchor" id="Unicode"></span> <span class="anchor" id="code_points"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Use with computers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> standard, the pound sign is encoded at <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+00A3</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">£</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">POUND SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">&pound;</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-unicode_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unicode-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whether the glyph is drawn with one or two bars is a <a href="/wiki/Type_designer" class="mw-redirect" title="Type designer">type designer</a>'s choice as explained above; the key point is that the code is constant irrespective of the presentation chosen.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The encoding of the £ symbol in position xA3 (163<sub>10</sub>) was first standardised by <a href="/wiki/ISO_Latin-1" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO Latin-1">ISO Latin-1</a> (an "<a href="/wiki/Extended_ASCII" title="Extended ASCII">extended ASCII</a>") in 1985. Position xA3 was used by the <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> <a href="/wiki/VT220" title="VT220">VT220</a> terminal, <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman" title="Mac OS Roman">Mac OS Roman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amstrad_CPC" title="Amstrad CPC">Amstrad CPC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amiga" title="Amiga">Amiga</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes" title="Acorn Archimedes">Acorn Archimedes</a>. </p><p>Many early computers (limited to a 7-bit, 128-position <a href="/wiki/Character_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Character set">character set</a>) used a variant of <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> with one of the less-frequently used characters replaced by the £. The UK national variant of <a href="/wiki/ISO_646" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 646">ISO 646</a> was standardised as BS 4730 in 1985. This code was identical to ASCII except for two characters: x23 encoded <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">£</span> instead of <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">#</span>, while x7E encoded <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">‾</span> (<a href="/wiki/Overline" title="Overline">overline</a>) instead of <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">~</span> (<a href="/wiki/Tilde" title="Tilde">tilde</a>). <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> on the <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC">IBM PC</a> originally used a proprietary 8-bit character set <a href="/wiki/Code_page_437" title="Code page 437">Code page 437</a> in which the £ symbol was encoded as x9C; adoption of the <a href="/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1" title="ISO/IEC 8859-1">ISO/IEC 8859-1</a> ("ISO Latin-1") standard code xA3 only came later with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a> also used position x9C. The <a href="/wiki/HP_LaserJet" title="HP LaserJet">HP LaserJet</a> used position xBA (ISO/IEC 8859-1: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">º</span>) for the £ symbol, while most other printers used x9C. The BBC <a href="/wiki/Ceefax" title="Ceefax">Ceefax</a> system which dated from 1976 encoded the £ as x23. The <a href="/wiki/Sinclair_Research" title="Sinclair Research">Sinclair</a> <a href="/wiki/ZX80" title="ZX80">ZX80</a> and <a href="/wiki/ZX81" title="ZX81">ZX81</a> characters sets used x0C (ASCII: <a href="/wiki/Form_feed" class="mw-redirect" title="Form feed">form feed</a>). The <a href="/wiki/ZX_Spectrum" title="ZX Spectrum">ZX Spectrum</a> and the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Micro" title="BBC Micro">BBC Micro</a> used x60 (ASCII: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">`</span>, <a href="/wiki/Grave_(accent)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grave (accent)">grave</a>). The <a href="/wiki/Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64">Commodore 64</a> used x5C (ASCII: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">\</span>) while the <a href="/wiki/Oric_computers" class="mw-redirect" title="Oric computers">Oric computers</a> used x5F (ASCII: <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">_</span>). <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>'s <a href="/wiki/EBCDIC" title="EBCDIC">EBCDIC</a> code page 037 uses xB1 for the £ while its code page 285 uses x5B. <a href="/wiki/International_Computers_Limited" title="International Computers Limited">ICL</a>'s <a href="/wiki/ICT_1900_series" title="ICT 1900 series">1900-series</a> mainframes used a six-bit (64-position character set) encoding for characters, loosely based on BS 4730, with the £ symbol represented as <a href="/wiki/Octal" title="Octal">octal</a> 23 (hex 13, dec 19). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Entry_methods">Entry methods</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Entry methods"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Pound_sign" title="Special:EditPage/Pound sign">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. 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A 1921 advertisement for an <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Typewriters" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Typewriters">Imperial Typewriters</a> model D, for example<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> shows a machine with two modifier shifts (CAPS and FIG), with the "£" sign occupying the FIG shift position on the key for letter "B". But the advertisement notes that "We make special keyboards containing symbols, fractions, signs, etc., for the peculiar needs of Engineers, Builders, Architects, Chemists, Scientists, etc., or any staple trade." </p><p>On Latin-alphabet typewriters lacking a "£" symbol type element, a reasonable approximation could be made by <a href="/wiki/Overstrike" title="Overstrike">overtyping</a> an "f" over an "L". Historically, "L" overtyped with a hyphen or an equals sign was also used.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Compose_key">Compose key</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Compose key"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Compose_key" title="Compose key">compose key</a> sequence is:<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Compose</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">L</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">-</kbd></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Windows,_Linux,_Unix"><span id="Windows.2C_Linux.2C_Unix"></span>Windows, Linux, Unix</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Windows, Linux, Unix"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unix" title="Unix">Unix</a>, the <a href="/wiki/UK_keyboard_layout" class="mw-redirect" title="UK keyboard layout">UK keyboard layout</a> has the "£" symbol on the 3 number key and is typed using: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd></li></ul> <p>On a <a href="/wiki/US-International" class="mw-redirect" title="US-International">US-International</a> keyboard in Windows,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the "£" can be entered using: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/AltGr" class="mw-redirect" title="AltGr">AltGr</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">4</kbd></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Right Alt</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">4</kbd> (on keyboards without an engraved AltGr key)</li></ul> <p>On a US-International keyboard in Linux and Unix, the "£" can be entered using: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">U</kbd> followed by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">a</kbd> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap"><a href="/wiki/AltGr" class="mw-redirect" title="AltGr">AltGr</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd></li></ul> <p>In Windows, it may also be generated through the <a href="/wiki/Windows_Alt_keycodes" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Alt keycodes">Alt keycodes</a>, although the results vary depending on factors such as the locale, codepage and OS version: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Alt</kbd>+<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">0</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">1</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">6</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd> (keeping Alt pressed until all 4 digits have been typed on the <a href="/wiki/Numeric_keypad" title="Numeric keypad">numeric keypad</a> only)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Alt</kbd>+<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">1</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">5</kbd><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">6</kbd> (this also works in <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a>)</li></ul> <p>Windows also supports the combination <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">Alt</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">4</kbd> but this combination may be overridden by applications for other purposes. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Character_Map_(Windows)" title="Character Map (Windows)">Character Map</a> utility and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Microsoft Word</a>'s "Insert Symbol" commands may also be used to enter this character.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mac_OS">Mac OS</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Mac OS"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The symbol "£" is in the <a href="/wiki/MacRoman" class="mw-redirect" title="MacRoman">MacRoman</a> character set and can be generated on most non-UK <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS">Mac OS</a> keyboard layouts which do not have a dedicated key for it, typically through: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ <a href="/wiki/Option_key" title="Option key">Option</a></kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd></li></ul> <p>On UK Apple Mac keyboards, this is reversed, with the "£" symbol on the number 3 key, typed using: </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd> (and the <a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">number sign</a> "#" generated by <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⌥ Option</kbd>+<kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">3</kbd>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Android">Android</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Android"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pressing and holding the local currency sign will invoke a pop-up box presenting an array of currency signs, from which the pound sign may be chosen.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Other uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The logo of the <a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UK Independence Party</a>, a British <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political party</a>, is based on the pound sign,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> symbolising the party's opposition to adoption of the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a> and to the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> generally. </p><p>A symbol that appears to be a double-barred pound sign is used as the logo of the record label <a href="/wiki/Parlophone" title="Parlophone">Parlophone</a>. In fact this is a stylised version of a <a href="/wiki/Fraktur" title="Fraktur">Fraktur</a> L (<span class="mwe-math-element"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}"> <semantics> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mstyle displaystyle="true" scriptlevel="0"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mi mathvariant="fraktur">L</mi> </mrow> </mrow> </mstyle> </mrow> <annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}</annotation> </semantics> </math></span><img src="https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f1cc2d02222bcba1e741979a145f0317df3cda81" class="mwe-math-fallback-image-inline mw-invert skin-invert" aria-hidden="true" style="vertical-align: -0.338ex; width:1.548ex; height:2.176ex;" alt="{\displaystyle {\mathfrak {L}}}"></span>), standing for Lindström (the firm's founder <a href="/wiki/Carl_Lindstr%C3%B6m_Company" title="Carl Lindström Company">Carl Lindström</a>). </p><p>The pound sign was used as an uppercase letter (the lowercase being <span class="nowrap">⟨ſ⟩</span>, <a href="/wiki/Long_s" title="Long s">long s</a>) to signify the sound <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">ʒ</a>]</span> in the early 1993–1995 version of the <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet" title="Turkmen alphabet">Turkmen Latin alphabet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%81" title="Ł">Latin letter L with stroke</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">Ł ł</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semuncia" title="Semuncia">Semuncia</a> <span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">𐆒</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Currency_symbols" title="Category:Currency symbols">Category:Currency symbols</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Scribal_abbreviations" class="mw-redirect" title="Scribal abbreviations">scribal abbreviations</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Prior to ISO 4217, abbreviations such as "stg" or "STG" were traditionally used to disambiguate sterling from other currencies that used the symbol.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is a separate code point, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+20A4</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">₤</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LIRA SIGN</span><sup id="cite_ref-unicode2_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-unicode2-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unicode notes that the "<a href="/wiki/Lira_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="Lira sign">lira sign</a>" is not widely used and was added due to both it and the pound sign being available on <a href="/wiki/HP_Roman" title="HP Roman">HP printers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Unicode_80_Lira_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unicode_80_Lira-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">These facilities also offer the similar symbol <span class="nowrap">⟨₤⟩</span>, the <a href="/wiki/Italian_lira" title="Italian lira">Italian lira</a> sign. This symbol will be not be interpreted as a pound sign in Excel etc. If the two-bar form is really needed, the solution is to select the standard <span class="nowrap">⟨£⟩</span> sign and apply an appropriate font.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pound_sign&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ViewOfCoinage-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ViewOfCoinage_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFThomas_Snelling1762" class="citation book cs1">Thomas Snelling (1762). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_12AGAAAAQAAJ"><i>A View of the Silver Coin and Coinage of England from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time</i></a>. T. Snelling. p. ii<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 September</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+View+of+the+Silver+Coin+and+Coinage+of+England+from+the+Norman+Conquest+to+the+Present+Time&rft.pages=ii&rft.pub=T.+Snelling&rft.date=1762&rft.au=Thomas+Snelling&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbub_gb_12AGAAAAQAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dozenalsociety.org.uk/history/poundhist.html">"A brief history of the pound"</a>. The Dozenal Society of Great Britain<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-01-14</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=A+brief+history+of+the+pound&rft.pub=The+Dozenal+Society+of+Great+Britain&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dozenalsociety.org.uk%2Fhistory%2Fpoundhist.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200308111135/http://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/Default.aspx?PageID=14314417">"The Origins of £sd"</a>. The Royal Mint Museum. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/Default.aspx?PageID=14314417">the original</a> on 8 March 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Origins+of+%C2%A3sd&rft.pub=The+Royal+Mint+Museum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalmintmuseum.org.uk%2FDefault.aspx%3FPageID%3D14314417&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSamuel_Pepys1660" class="citation web cs1">Samuel Pepys (2 January 1660). <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Samuel_Pepys/1660/January">"Diary of Samuel Pepys/1660/January"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 September</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Diary+of+Samuel+Pepys%2F1660%2FJanuary&rft.date=1660-01-02&rft.au=Samuel+Pepys&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FDiary_of_Samuel_Pepys%2F1660%2FJanuary&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span> <i>Then I went to Mr. Crew's and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my office, where there was nothing to do</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDowding1962" class="citation book cs1">Dowding, Geoffrey (1962). <i>An introduction to the history of printing types; an illustrated summary of main stages in the development of type design from 1440 up to the present day: an aid to type face identification</i>. Clerkenwell [London]: Wace. p. 5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+introduction+to+the+history+of+printing+types%3B+an+illustrated+summary+of+main+stages+in+the+development+of+type+design+from+1440+up+to+the+present+day%3A+an+aid+to+type+face+identification.&rft.place=Clerkenwell+%5BLondon%5D&rft.pages=5&rft.pub=Wace&rft.date=1962&rft.aulast=Dowding&rft.aufirst=Geoffrey&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHayes2022" class="citation web cs1">Hayes, Adam (22 April 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/egp.asp">"Egyptian Pound (EGP) Definition"</a>. <i>Investopedia</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Investopedia&rft.atitle=Egyptian+Pound+%28EGP%29+Definition&rft.date=2022-04-22&rft.aulast=Hayes&rft.aufirst=Adam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Fterms%2Fe%2Fegp.asp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dailynewsegypt.com/2008/06/10/alexandria-city-center-to-undergo-le-370-million-expansion/">"Alexandria City Center to undergo LE 370 million expansion"</a>. <i>Daily News Egypt</i>. 10 June 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Daily+News+Egypt&rft.atitle=Alexandria+City+Center+to+undergo+LE+370+million+expansion&rft.date=2008-06-10&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdailynewsegypt.com%2F2008%2F06%2F10%2Falexandria-city-center-to-undergo-le-370-million-expansion%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_World_Factbook_(1990)/Lebanon">"Lebanon"</a>. <i>CIA World Factbook 1990 - page 178</i>. <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a>. 1 April 1990<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2022-06-21</span></span> – via en.wikisource.org.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Lebanon&rft.btitle=CIA+World+Factbook+1990+-+page+178&rft.pub=Central+Intelligence+Agency&rft.date=1990-04-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikisource.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_World_Factbook_%281990%29%2FLebanon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarber2004" class="citation book cs1">Barber, Katherine, ed. (2004). <i>The Canadian Oxford dictionary</i> (2nd ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-541816-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-541816-6"><bdi>0-19-541816-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Canadian+Oxford+dictionary&rft.place=Toronto&rft.edition=2nd&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-19-541816-6&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nyt-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nyt_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliam_Safire1991" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Safire" title="William Safire">William Safire</a> (1991-03-24). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/24/magazine/on-language-hit-the-pound-sign.html">"On Language; Hit the Pound Sign"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-05-21</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=On+Language%3B+Hit+the+Pound+Sign&rft.date=1991-03-24&rft.au=William+Safire&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1991%2F03%2F24%2Fmagazine%2Fon-language-hit-the-pound-sign.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BoEoldnotes-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BoEoldnotes_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BoEoldnotes_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknotes">"Withdrawn banknotes"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 September</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Withdrawn+banknotes&rft.pub=Bank+of+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bankofengland.co.uk%2Fbanknotes%2Fwithdrawn-banknotes&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span> ("£1 1st Series Treasury Issue" to "£5 Series B")</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/current-banknotes">"Current banknotes"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_England" title="Bank of England">Bank of England</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Current+banknotes&rft.pub=Bank+of+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bankofengland.co.uk%2Fbanknotes%2Fcurrent-banknotes&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BoE-FoI-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BoE-FoI_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BoE-FoI_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/freedom-of-information/2022/history-of-the-use-of-the-single-crossbar-pound-sign-on-banknotes">"History of the use of the single crossbar pound sign on Bank of England's banknotes"</a>. Bank of England<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 April</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=History+of+the+use+of+the+single+crossbar+pound+sign+on+Bank+of+England%27s+banknotes&rft.pub=Bank+of+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bankofengland.co.uk%2Ffreedom-of-information%2F2022%2Fhistory-of-the-use-of-the-single-crossbar-pound-sign-on-banknotes&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Caslon's_punches_and_matrices_Howes-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Caslon's_punches_and_matrices_Howes_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHowes2000" class="citation journal cs1">Howes, Justin (2000). "Caslon's punches and matrices". <i>Matrix</i>. <b>20</b>: 1–7.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Matrix&rft.atitle=Caslon%27s+punches+and+matrices&rft.volume=20&rft.pages=1-7&rft.date=2000&rft.aulast=Howes&rft.aufirst=Justin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-unicode-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-unicode_17-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThe_Unicode_Consortium2015" class="citation web cs1">The Unicode Consortium (11 June 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf">"The Unicode Standard, Version 10.0 | Character Code Charts"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Currency Symbols</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Mountain View, CA, USA: <a href="/wiki/Unicode,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Unicode, Inc.">Unicode, Inc.</a> pp. 751–752. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-936213-10-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-936213-10-8"><bdi>978-1-936213-10-8</bdi></a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161206230132/http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/ch22.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 2016-12-06<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-12-06</span></span>. <q>[...] Currency Symbols: U+20A0–U+20CF [...] Lira Sign. A separate currency sign U+20A4 LIRA SIGN is encoded for compatibility with the <i>HP Roman-8</i> character set, which is still widely implemented in printers. In general, U+00A3 POUND SIGN may be used for both the various currencies known as pound (or punt) and the currencies known as lira. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">12 November</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=GitHub&rft.atitle=Compose+Key+cheat+sheet&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftuttle.github.io%2Fpython-useful%2Fcompose-key-cheat-sheet.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APound+sign" class="Z3988"></span> (Caution: the 'additional' method suggested, Compose/l/=, should produce a lira sign U+20A4 rather than a pound sign).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.csbsju.edu/Documents/MCL/resource/use-int-keyboard.pdf">"Using the US International Keyboard Layout"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/College_of_Saint_Benedict_and_Saint_John%27s_University" title="College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University">College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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