For the record, there's a pound among the foreign coins (6)
I believe the answer is:
annals
'for the record' is the definition.
(annals is a kind of record)
'a pound among the foreign coins' is the wordplay.
'a' becomes 'an'.
'pound' becomes 'L' (the pound sign is based on an L).
'among' indicates putting letters inside.
'the foreign coins' becomes 'nas' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'l' placed inside 'nas' is 'nals'.
'an'+'nals'='ANNALS'
'there's' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for annals that I've seen before include "Tomorrow (Spanish)" , "Record of events year by year" , "Historical records" , "The Four Masters wrote them in 17th century" , "Registers" .)