We Brits stopped using gold for pound coins a long, long time ago as the amount of gold that made a pound shrank away to microscopic amounts (currently around 0.03 grammes of gold).
In legislation drawing on his proposals, the government gave higher education funders power to take money away, pound for pound, from universities which charged higher fees.
Think of what it must be like to be a 100-pound woman held prisoner in her own home trying to run away from the anger of her 200-pound boyfriend or husband.