Why does the British call their unit of currency “the pound”? Because a pound was how much 240 silver pennies weighed. The pound was 240 pennies from Anglo-Saxon times up until 1971 when it became 100 pennies — which aren’t silver.
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Why does the British call their unit of currency “the pound”? Because a pound was how much 240 silver pennies weighed. The pound was 240 pennies from Anglo-Saxon times up until 1971 when it became 100 pennies — which aren’t silver.