Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Coins of the Pound Sterling
Coinage of the Pound Sterling[edit]
- Reason
- Very high resolution, illustrative, well composed and very encyclopedic, what more do you want off a featured picture?
- Proposed caption
- Not sure what it could be but something from the article along the lines of
- "The British currency was decimalised on February 15, 1971. The basic unit of currency – the pound (or pound sterling) – was unaffected. Before decimalisation there were 240 (old) pence in a pound, now there are 100 (new) pence. The new coins were marked with the wording NEW PENNY (singular) or NEW PENCE (plural) to distinguish them from the old. The word "new" was dropped effective with the 1982 coinage. The symbol p was also adopted to distinguish the new pennies from the old, which used the symbol d, which came from the Latin denarius, a coin used in the Roman Empire."
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- Creator
- Coins of the pound sterling
"[W]hat more do you want off (sic) a featured picture?" Umm, a free license? Being in Category:All non-free media would tell you that this image is ineligible. MER-C 02:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)