God, you may be right and I've been given "duff gen" (unreliable info) as we say in UK.

>>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"
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>In Joyce's Ulysses, I've seen "libri, solidi, denarii". For reasons unknown, I still remember that.
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>And, of course, it's easy to google out:
>http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/socl/economics/EverybodysGuidetoMoneyMatters/chap1.html