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The ISO 4217 currency code is GBP (from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the UK and the initial letter of pound). Occasionally the abbreviation UKP is also seen.The pound sign, like the dollar sign ("$"), is usually placed before the number (i.e. "£12,000" and not "12,000£"), and is usually not separated from the following number, or is separated only by a thin space. The symbol "₤" is also known as the lira sign. In Italy, prior to the adoption of the euro, the symbol was used as an alternative to the more usual L to indicate prices in lira (but always with double horizontal lines). The symbol "£" has Unicode code point U+00A3 (inherited from Latin-1)*. In HTML it can be entered as £ or & The symbol "₤" has Unicode code point U+20A4.
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