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Libra is the portuguese word for pound sterling
by tiagobraw 7y ago
Libra is the portuguese word for pound sterling
- nyolfen 7y agoit's the latin word for a scale and is the root of many money-related words in european languages
- m-i-l 7y agoIncluding the British pound - until decimalisation in 1971, the abbreviations for pounds, shillings and pence were Lsd (with the L often having a single or double cross bar) from the Latin libra, solidus and denarius respectively.