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It is also the name for the (former) currency of the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Pound, replaced by the EuroThe euro ISO 4217 code EUR is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It is the result of the most significan in 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep.
The symbol for the pound, particularly with respect to the pound sterling legal tender in the UK and her possessions, is a script capital letter LL is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. History The letter L is derived ultimately from the Semitic Lamed which stood for the phonetic value l as did the Greek letter Lambda Λ (upper case) or λ (lower case), as well as the equivalent pierced horizontally with an endash or an equal: £.
The same £ symbol was used in ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer and the Republic of Ireland for the cognate liraLira Vittorio Emanuele II: 1 Italian lira 1863 Lira is the name of the monetary unit of a number of countries, as well as the former currency of Italy, San Marino and the Vatican City. The term originates from the value of a Troy pound weight (Latin libra and the Irish poundThe Irish pound ( Irish language: punt was the currency unit of the Irish Free State, and later of the republic of Ireland until 1 January, 1999; the ISO 4217 code was IEP and the usual notation was the prefix IR where confusion might have arisen with Ste respectly, before the Euro was introduced in these countries (although in recent times the official symbol for the ItalianThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer Lira has been a capital L).
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