Talk:Pound sterling

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in § Pre-decimal change the target of the link "decimalisation in 1971" from £sd#Decimalisations to £sd#Decimalisation (notice the "s" has been removed). That's all. 99.146.242.37 (talk) 06:58, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Fixed! Thank you! Vgbyp (talk) 09:10, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Banknotes are not "paper money"

that subsection title is misleading. see here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/online-collections/banknotes/early-banknotes — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.10.47.246 (talk) 21:18, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Paper money redirects to banknote but it hardly makes sense to use the tabloid-ish alias rather than the real thing, so I have changed it accordingly. Come back if that is not what you had in mind. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:47, 11 July 2024 (UTC)

50£

50£ is not frequently used at all, some people in UK have never even seen one in their entire life because it is so rare. [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48993008 Onlyloss6973 (talk) 07:24, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

@Onlyloss6973: It's written £50, not 50£. Nevertheless, they do exist, and I see two or three each month. I work in a shop, and some of our customers bring in £50 notes - usually it's either foreign tourists, or rich kids from the local private school. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:22, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

By your own assessment it doesn't mean that is frequently used since it used by a small and certain demographic. The common person living in UK doesn't use it Onlyloss6973 (talk) 11:35, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I don't know who qualifies as a common person, but the fact that many people don't use it doesn't make it "rare".---Ehrenkater (talk) 11:40, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

So it should still be classified as frequently used? That doesn't seem right to me if many people don't use it Onlyloss6973 (talk) 11:46, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

I've added a note saying that the £50 is "less common".---Ehrenkater (talk) 12:01, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

Article merge

I think that the Sterling area article should be merged into this article. There are still countries that are pegged to the pound sterling or use it as their currency.

the up to date list and information could be added as a section in this article to show previous and current countries that peg or use the pound sterling. ChefBear01 (talk) 14:22, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Oppose. Although the sterling zone is almost trivial nowadays, historically it was substantial indeed, when the pound was the world reserve currency. So the topic is notable enough to have its own article, just for openers. Secondly, this (Pound Sterling) article is already very large and it really does not want getting any bigger if we can help it, without a very convincing reason. It is not obvious that you have made that convincing case, sorry. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:03, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

Oppose. That sterling area looks to be a topic of its own. There's already a small section here dedicated to sterling area and linking to the main article. There's no need to change how it is. Vgbyp (talk) 07:38, 12 August 2024 (UTC)