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The issue is confirmed by others as well, one awesome commenter Florin Mihaila even provided a very detail analyse and solution to the issue.

And that was only part of it, there's a florin, a crown, half crown etc and a halfpenny.

When the Dutch florin was introduced there would have been an agreed (or imposed) exchange rate.

Discovered Ctrl+Option+F produces a florin 'ƒ' [on my machine] and the format function key-combo check is Ctrl+Option + regular ol' 'f'.

I find it interesting that a Charlemagne Franc at 3.75g is roughly equal to a Venetian Ducat and to a Florin at 3.5g.

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Coins were at or soon before decimalisation: Farthing (1/4d), ha'penny (1/2d), penny, threppence (3d), sixpence or tanner (6d), shilling, florin (2/), half crown (2/6), and the crown (5/).

Whilst exploring what money is, I had the realisation that almost all units of currency are either measures of weight (pound, livre, peso, shekel, penny), divisions of same (denarius, quarter), of quality or its representation (real, crown, dollar, florin.

The "Ps" would have been a different usage, like the concurrent use of "ƒ" and "Fl" for Florin/G(o)ulden, non-withstanding mixed interpretations.

For 10p, 5p and 2.5p quantities, that wouldn't be an issue as following decimalisation, those simply reused the Florin, Shilling and Sixpence coins.

I was referring specifically to the Florin/Gulden/Guilder coins being used across Europe in Martin Luther's time, which contained about 3.5g gold, which at today's gold price would be worth over $500 just as bullion, but it was apparently worth about twice that in terms of purchasing power.

I would muse, given a 1700 years history of currency symbols denoted by a letter with an extra stroke (or, in some rare cases, as a letter with a hook, like the Florin), it would be a bit strange that the sign for the pesos/dollar would have originated in a totally independent evolution of its own.