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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

sometimes you would hear the term pound sterling and im wondering if a pound was at one time worth a pound of silver. would make more sense the things set in olden times were the common folk are like. a whole shilling. wow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That's exactly it. The main currency of medieval England was the silver penny (aka sterling) which weighed 1/240th of a tower pound. So 240 pence was a "pound of sterlings".