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User blog comment:The.Outsider/Inside Assassin's Creed 3 - All Parts/@comment-5174994-20120919195858/@comment-5088097-20120919223255
Well, it would make sense considering the Americas were extentions of Great Britain itself and their currency was "pounds" so it's only natural that their economy would have been transfered to another land. Just my estimate.