2205: L or M: What's the Symbol for Lesotho's Currency Dec 28, 2020

Although there are apparent exceptions, many currency-symbols, especially newer ones, will be consistent with the pronounced names of the currency, like euro, €, ruble, ₱, won, ₩ (note that ₱ comes from Cyrillic: рубль). The symbol for the currency the Lesotho is the Lesotho Loti is: M. This isn't from a foreign language as with the pound £ or the dollar $, and comes from a native word meaning 'mountain'. Instead this M comes from the plural 'maloti' and indeed while this is the symbol for the general currency, for reference to 1 loti people will use L, though this isn't worth much so is not so common. In effect therefore this is an abbreviation and not exactly a symbol, though that said the subdivisions 'sente' (plural lisente') would not have their own abbreviation.