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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Pound sterling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | The pound sterling is one of the world's most widely traded currencies, along with the United States dollar, the Japanese yen, the Australian Dollar and the euro. |
 | | The pound sterling, established in 1560–61 by Elizabeth I and her advisors, foremost among them Sir Thomas Gresham, brought order to the financial chaos of Tudor England that had been occasioned by the "Great Debasement" of the coinage, which brought on a debilitating inflation during the years 1543–51. |
 | | Pound sterling was used as the currency of the British Empire. |
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