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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 12111939, member: 2844&quot;]That is actually metric and still used, 1 pond or Pfund equals 500 grams, half a kilo.</p><p><br /></p><p>The term Pound Sterling comes from the Medieval Dutch &quot;pond oosterling&quot;, pound easterner, meaning a German pound. Until the Austrian Maria Theresia coins, German silver coins were more reliable than any other coin in Europe, so a silver pond oosterling was the best pond/pound.</p><p>The Dutch and Frisians traded with Britain and paid with the reliable pond oosterling. The Brits thought the double o was a double 0, and deleted what they thought were zeros, and the term pound sterling was born.</p><p>Nowadays it is written with capitals, Pound Sterling, even though the S was not the first letter when first introduced.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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