Evidence coverage: 1560–1740. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
No distinct successor currency is established in the loaded view.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
In 1560 five pounds Scots equalled one pound sterling. This is a dated account valuation, not the introduction of the pound Scots.
Sources and qualifications →The coordinated coin proclamations of 1604 established a 12:1 relation between Scots and sterling accounting units. This account equivalence is distinct from the market exchange rate of actual circulating coins.
Sources and qualifications →Newspaper advertisements as late as 1740 still quoted prices in pounds Scots or merks alongside sterling. The 1707 coinage union did not abolish the Scottish account units; their final disappearance is not dated here.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
In 1560 five pounds Scots equalled one pound sterling. This is a dated account valuation, not the introduction of the pound Scots.
C2100The coordinated coin proclamations of 1604 established a 12:1 relation between Scots and sterling accounting units. This account equivalence is distinct from the market exchange rate of actual circulating coins.
C2101Newspaper advertisements as late as 1740 still quoted prices in pounds Scots or merks alongside sterling. The 1707 coinage union did not abolish the Scottish account units; their final disappearance is not dated here.
C2102Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Twelve pounds Scots equalled one pound sterling in accounting; Fox distinguishes this from rates for actual circulating coins.
Accepted manuscript p. 7
Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.
Scots pounds continued in prices and accounts for decades after the 1707 union.
Accepted manuscript pp. 26–27
Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.
Before union, Scottish accounting used pounds of 20 shillings of 12 pence, alongside a merk worth two-thirds of a pound.
Accepted manuscript p. 6 (PDF p. 7)
Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.
In 1560 five pounds Scots equalled one pound sterling. This is a dated account valuation, not the introduction of the pound Scots.
Sums of money, paragraphs 1–2: differentiation, 1560 rate and survival after 1707
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
The coordinated coin proclamations of 1604 established a 12:1 relation between Scots and sterling accounting units. This account equivalence is distinct from the market exchange rate of actual circulating coins.
Accepted manuscript p. 11, section C(3): the 1604 issue and the 12:1 account ratio.
Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.
Newspaper advertisements as late as 1740 still quoted prices in pounds Scots or merks alongside sterling. The 1707 coinage union did not abolish the Scottish account units; their final disappearance is not dated here.
Accepted manuscript pp. 25–27, section F: advertisements in 1727 and as late as 1740; continuing Scots accounts.
Account conversion is not a universal market exchange rate; union did not abolish Scots accounting immediately.
The pound Scots is treated as a qualified regional branch of sterling reckoning: the Scottish National Dictionary identifies an account pound initially equal to sterling, and the National Records of Scotland describes subsequent divergence of the Scottish and English currencies through debasement. This is an inference of account differentiation, not an inference from shared names or an exchange rate alone. The fourteenth-to-sixteenth-century range describes the broad differentiation discussed by the sources, not an exact founding reform; earlier Scottish accounting and the immediate separation date remain unresolved.
Sums of money, paragraphs 1–2: differentiation, 1560 rate and survival after 1707; Sense 2: account pound initially equal to sterling, subsequent differentiation; dated quotations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Sums of money, paragraphs 1–2: differentiation, 1560 rate and survival after 1707; Sense 2: account pound initially equal to sterling, subsequent differentiation; dated quotations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.