Alles gut Thomas

>>FYI For "the British Pound" you can just say "Sterling".
>At least in germany this would probably interpreted as a kind of silver <g>.

Yes, we have sterling silver here too. It's a poorer quality, cheaper form

>>FYI the only other "pound" I know of is the Maltese pound (and I'm not sure if they're in the € now), which was the only currency I knew of that cost more than Sterling, at c. £1 Malt. = c. £2 Brit last time I visited.
>Malta uses the Maltese Lira [I had to look it up, since I wasn't sure anymore...]

I'd forgotten about the Egyption pound - and I've been there 3 times!

Yes but among the English speaking world (including the Maltese) it is referred to as a pound. Incidentally, the old UK money, pounds, shillings and pence (there were 20 shillings in a pound, and 12 pence in a shilling) used to be represented as £ s. d., which stood for LIRA, SISTERCES and DINARI, which dated back to Roman times so, the £ sign actually is as fancy "L", and means "Lira" (I think the Romans must have BEEN on LSD to concoct such a weird monetary system < g >). The 1st time I went to Italy, years ago, and saw the £ sign in a market (used for their lira also, naturalich), I nearly had a heart attack, seeing a pair of socks, say, for what i took to be several thousand pounds! :-)

> I've no idea if "Punt" would be the correct/better idiom used on a canadian board <g>.

Sorry, I don't see the joke.

>OTOH, I do know the autralians went from pound to dollars a few years ago,

More like some 25 years ago!

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Terry