Australian Pound
The pound (symbol £, or A£ when distinguished from other currencies called the pound) was the currency of Australia from 1910 until 13 February 1966, when it was replaced by the Australian dollar. It was subdivided into 20 shillings (symbol s), each of 12 pence (symbol d).
Famous quotes containing the words australian and/or pound:
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“Pound’s crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history’s sake we shouldn’t keep him there.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)