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Key facts
- Code
- GIP (numeric: 292 )
- Plural
- Pounds
- Symbol
- £
- 1 100
- Penny
- Penny
- Pence
- Freq used
- £5, £10, £20, £50
- Rarely used
- £100
- Coins
- 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2, £5
- Official user s
- Gibraltar (alongside sterling )
- Unofficial users
- La Línea , Spain (local businesses)
- Currency board
- Commissioner of Currency of Gibraltar
- Website
- www .gibraltar .gov .gi
- Inflation
- 2.0% (2013 est.)
- Pegged with
- sterling at par
via Wikipedia infobox
~6 min read
Encyclopedic overview
The pound (sign: £; ISO code: GIP) is the currency of Gibraltar. It is pegged to – and exchangeable with – British pound sterling at par value. Coins and banknotes of the Gibraltar pound are issued by the Government of Gibraltar.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gibraltar pound” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.