I have a South African purchased HP laptop.....no £ symbol, although it does have a $. (I am writing this on my UK sourced Mac).My accountant understands UKP when I email her on my SA HP, and I got pst in a blink.....Nice thread BTW
According to the foreign exchange converters here in NZ (not unacquainted with sterling trade), the standard abbrev. for the pound is "GBP". For the Netherlands the appropriate abbrev. is EUR.
One perhaps especially relevant converter would be average earnings, since there was a lot of labour in a Wellington. For the war years, average weekly earnings were about GBP200; the same table (on the Measuring Worth website) gives average earnings in 2022 as a smidge over GBP 32,000. So at a cost of GBP 20,000 that would make GBP 3,200,000; at 14,000, 2,240,000. Say, the same as ten of the more modest kind of Ferrari.