Information for Pound Sterling (GBP) below from wikipedia:
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The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly called the pound, is the official currency
of the United Kingdom, its Crown Dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and the
British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands,[2] British Antarctic
Territory[3] and Tristan da Cunha.[4] It is subdivided into 100 pence (singular: penny).
The Channel Islands (the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the Bailiwick of Jersey) and the Isle of Man
produce their own local issues of sterling; see Guernsey pound, Jersey pound and Manx pound. The
pound sterling is also used in Gibraltar (alongside the Gibraltar pound), the Falkland Islands
(alongside the Falkland Islands pound) and Saint Helena[5] and Ascension[6] (alongside the Saint
Helena pound). Gibraltar, Falkland Islands and Saint Helena pounds are separate currencies, pegged
at parity to the pound sterling.
Sterling is the fourth most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the US dollar,
the euro and the Japanese yen. Together with those three currencies it forms the basket of
currencies which calculate the value of IMF Special Drawing Rights, with a 11.3% weighting as of
2011. Sterling is also the third most held reserve currency in global reserves.
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