U+10183 "𐆃" Greek Litra Sign Unicode Character

U+10183 "𐆃" Greek Litra Sign is a historical symbol representing the ancient Greek unit of weight and currency known as the litra, which was commonly used in various Greek city-states, particularly in Sicily and Magna Graecia, for measuring precious metals and coinage. This character belongs to the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, specifically within the Ancient Greek Numbers block, and it serves as a typographic representation of a sign that originally resembled a stylized capital lambda or a similar angular character. Its inclusion in Unicode allows scholars, historians, and typographers to accurately digitize and display ancient Greek financial and metrological texts without requiring special fonts or workarounds. The Greek litra itself was roughly equivalent to a Roman libra, weighing about 327 grams, and the sign was often inscribed on coins or weights to denote value or denomination.