Re: Which is why @Charles 9
"I think the pound weight and pound currency have different derivations (does anyone know?)"
If I read my sources correctly, they were originally one and the same, based on the weight of 1 pound of silver coinage (20 shillings, 8 half-crowns, or 4 crowns) in the old system. There was no silver pound coin (it was based on collective), but the sovereign was the equivalent value in a gold coin. 240 pence was the equivalent value in copper(s).
Of course, this all went out the door when the currency system was replaced with the Pound Sterling.
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