Pound sign cufflinks

Pound sign cufflinks in solid hallmarked sterling silver.

The pound sign is the symbol for the pound sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom. Both symbols derive from librum, the basic Roman unit of weight (about 0.329 kg), in turn derived from the Latin word for scales or balance. The pound became a British unit of weight, and the pound currency unit was so named because it was originally the value of 1 pound Tower Weight (326 g) of fine (pure) silver which makes it rather appropriate that these are made in the same metal. Incidentally, the pre-decimalisation penny (of which 240 made £1) took the symbol d from the Latin word denarius, the Roman 'penny'.