thumb|250px|Countries where a unit of the national currency is "pound" (dark blue) or "lira" (light blue)
Pound is a name of various units of currency. It is used in some countries today and previously was used in many others. The English word "pound" derives from the Latin expression , "a pound by weight", in which means 'scale' or 'balance' and means 'pound' or 'weight'. The currency's symbol is £, a stylised form of the blackletter 'L' (<math>\mathfrak{L}</math><!-- Please do not replace this markup with because the aim is to mimic Textualis, not Fraktur (which was not used in England) -->) (from ), crossed to indicate abbreviation.
The term was adopted in England from the weight