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ELI5: When writing an amount of money, such as '£50' or '50p', why does the '£' come before the amount of money but the 'p' comes after?

I guess the same logic applies to American currency with '$50' and '50c' (I don't have the symbol for cent on my laptop).

I'm just wondering why money values have the larger symbols ahead of their money, but the lesser values always come after?
gpt
It's a quick glance tactic to avoid mistakes.  If there is not a 0 and a decimal written before the number, one might actually misread ¢50 as $50 or vice versa, so the ¢ was after the amount.  This was more prevalent in days of handwritten books as the two symbols were really only one curved stroke apart from each other.  However, the presence of the 0 and decimal point can work just fine in electronic spreadsheet modernization.  $0.50 is much more largely considered acceptable today as it's usually a computer doing the calculations.