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Give and pounds
The Students ' Union also encourage participation within the local community, through their RaG ( Raise and Give ) group for instance, who raise thousands of pounds a year for both national and local charities and the American Football team who do several charity events a year for local charity Kirkwood Hospice.

crowns and pounds
In addition to the circulating coinage, the UK also mints commemorative decimal coins ( crowns ) in the denomination of five pounds ( previously 25p ).
In Edward II's treasury, in 1324, there were no fewer than ten crowns, the most extravagant has been valued at approximately a million pounds in today's money.
Both crowns were crafted by Adam and Kathy Karbownik who melted down the gold and set the gemstones in them, while the jewelry used in the crowns was donated by thousands of parishioners with the gold alone weighed in at ten pounds

pounds and guineas
Soon afterwards, Stanley purchased a decorative punch bowl, made in Sheffield, England, and sold by London silversmith G. R. Collis and Company ( now Boodle and Dunthorne Jewellers ), for ten guineas, equal to ten and a half pounds sterling, $ 48. 67 US $, which is equal to $ today.
The five guineas gold coin started out life as a five-pound coin before the fluctuating value of the guinea eventually settled at twenty-one shillings ; therefore it is arguable that the five pounds piece issued after the Great Recoinage of 1816 is merely a continuation of the earlier value.
It is still quoted in the pricing and sale of livestock at auction and racehorses, where the purchaser will pay in guineas but the seller will receive payment in an equal number of pounds.
Traditionally, professionals in Great Britain received a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, or wage, and would often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account.
Historically at some auctions the purchaser would bid and pay in guineas but the seller would receive in pounds.
The word " guineas " is still found in the names of some British horse races, even though their prize funds are now fixed in pounds – such as the 1, 000 Guineas and 2, 000 Guineas at Newmarket Racecourse.
In July 1970, as one of the first people to be breathalized, he was banned from driving for a year and fined 75 pounds with 20 guineas costs for having consumed more than the permitted level of alcohol in Old Brompton Road at 4 a. m. on 21 March 1970.
King George III donated 200 pounds, and William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth subscribed 50 guineas.
However, Lily ( Ruth Sheen ), who also carries on a black-market trade in scarce postwar foodstuffs, charges two guineas ( two pounds and two shillings: equivalent to £ 48 in 2005 ) for arranging the abortions, without Vera's knowledge.
He sold his first picture for two guineas but by the time he was twenty-four he had sold a picture for five hundred pounds.
Even at the height of his fame he only earned three guineas a design, but today his original artwork can fetch thousands of pounds.
The " guineas " of the book's title are themselves a badge of social class, the money amount of 21 shillings ( 1. 05 pounds sterling ) for which no coin existed, but the common denomination for solely upper-class transactions ( e. g., purchase of pictures or race-horses, lawyers ' or medical specialists ' fees, and so on.

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