Manx pound for the island since 1865. In 1971 the United Kingdom moved to a decimal currency, with the pound subdivided into 100 pence. The Isle of Man Government, having issued its own banknotes for ten years, took the opportunity to approach the Royal Mint and request its own versions of the decimal coins, which were introduced in 1971. The "Murrey Pennies" of 1668 were the first to depict the 'triskeles' symbol and the Island motto ""Quocunque Gesseris Stabit"" (sic), both of which have continued to feature on Manx coinage until the present day (the motto was corrected to ""Quocunque Jeceris Stabit""
British currency in the Middle East the Currency Board in Cyprus, one pound sterling issued by the Bank of England had to be deposited by the Government of Cyprus with the Crown Agents in London. In 1955, a decision was made by the British colonial authorities to decimalise the Cyprus pound, and in this they used the system proposed by William Brown, a member of the United Kingdom parliament, who suggested in 1855 that the pound sterling in the United Kingdom should be divided into one-thousand parts, each called a "mil." Although this system was never adopted in the United Kingdom, it was used in several