Unless you meant THIS pound sign : £ , £(halfwidth & fullwidth variants, respectively).
The L shaled sign probably comes from libra, literally pound (the weight unit).
This would also explain the ethymology of many currencies
called "Lira" (L./₤/Lit. ,₺, Lm, £sd, £S, ل.ل. , I£/ל"י ) as well as the Livre Tournois (₶).
I think the lb bar sign (℔) might also have been used as
a scribal abbreviation for libra (the weight pound), although I cannot confirm... see if you can contact a typographist, or a historian, or somethiŋ...
Oddly, the currency sign of þᵉ gꚙd ol'
Roman Semuncia sign (𐆒) also looks like a fancy L...
maybe it's unintentional & the gliph was actually
supposed to be a fancy long s (ſ / ʃ)?
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