To anyone who didn't know better, it was business as usual in Sterling.
The opportunity may be some way away, despite yesterday's rise in sterling.
While in Sterling he decided to sell his parents' farm.
He now has an hour commute each way from their home in Sterling.
Payments to bank accounts will be made in £ Sterling.
It will then appear on your next bank statement in both foreign currency and sterling.
However, the return when measured in sterling depends on what has happened to the exchange rate during the course of the year.
During this period, and into the nineteenth century, accounts could be kept in either dollars or sterling.
If you are tied to paying in sterling or the local currency.
With interest rates at a record low there's little reward to deposit money in Sterling.