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<span>Australian shillings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Australian_shillings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-New_Zealand_shilling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#New_Zealand_shilling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>New Zealand shilling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-New_Zealand_shilling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Maltese_shillings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Maltese_shillings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Maltese shillings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Maltese_shillings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ceylonese_shillings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ceylonese_shillings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Ceylonese shillings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ceylonese_shillings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-East_African_shillings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#East_African_shillings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>East African shillings</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-East_African_shillings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-North_America" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#North_America"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>North America</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-North_America-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Somali_shilling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Somali_shilling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.7</span> <span>Somali shilling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Somali_shilling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Somaliland_shilling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Somaliland_shilling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.8</span> <span>Somaliland shilling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Somaliland_shilling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.9</span> <span>Other</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_countries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_countries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Other countries</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%8B%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Шылінг – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Шылінг" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%9E%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BD%93%E0%BC%8D" title="ཞི་ལིན། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ཞི་ལིན།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%C3%ADling" title="Xíling – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Xíling" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ilink" title="Šilink – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Šilink" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swllt" title="Swllt – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Swllt" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schilling" title="Schilling – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Schilling" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0illing" title="Šilling – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Šilling" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B9" title="Σελίνι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σελίνι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Cilingo" title="Ŝilingo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ŝilingo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF" title="شیلینگ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شیلینگ" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8B%A4%EB%A7%81" title="실링 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="실링" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%87%D5%AB%D5%AC%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3" title="Շիլինգ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Շիլինգ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0iling" title="Šiling – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Šiling" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scellino" title="Scellino – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Scellino" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92" title="שילינג – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="שילינג" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Шиллинг – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Шиллинг" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilingi" title="Shilingi – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Shilingi" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ili%C5%86%C5%A1" title="Šiliņš – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Šiliņš" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ilingas" title="Šilingas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Šilingas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3" title="Шилинг – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Шилинг" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF" title="شیلینگ – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="شیلینگ" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0" title="シリング – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="シリング" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling" title="Shilling – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Shilling" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%27l%C3%AEn" title="Ch'lîn – Norman" lang="nrf" hreflang="nrf" data-title="Ch'lîn" data-language-autonym="Nouormand" data-language-local-name="Norman" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nouormand</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szyling" title="Szyling – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Szyling" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" 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one-twentieth of a [[Pound (currency)|pound]] before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>The '''shilling''' is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern [[currency|currencies]] formerly used in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], other [[British Commonwealth]] countries and [[Ireland]], where they were generally equivalent to 12 [[pence]] or one-twentieth of a [[Pound (currency)|pound]] before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><br /></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>Currently the shilling is used as a currency in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">five</del> east African countries: [[Kenyan shilling|Kenya]], [[Tanzanian shilling|Tanzania]], [[Ugandan shilling|Uganda<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]], [[Somali shilling|Somalia</del>]], and the<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> ''de facto'' country of</del> [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Somaliland</del> shilling|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Somaliland</del>]].<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>{{cite book |last=Renders |first=Marleen |title=Consider Somaliland: State-Building with Traditional Leaders and Institutions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IfgxAQAAQBAJ&dq=somaliland+shilling&pg=PA134 |publisher=BRILL |date=2012-01-27 |pages=134 |isbn=978-90-04-22254-0}}</del></ref> The [[East African Community]] additionally plans to introduce an [[East African shilling]].</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>Currently the shilling is used as a currency in <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">four</ins> east African countries: [[Kenyan shilling|Kenya]], [[Tanzanian shilling|Tanzania]], [[Ugandan shilling|Uganda]], and the [[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Somali</ins> shilling|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Somalia</ins>]].</ref> The [[East African Community]] additionally plans to introduce an [[East African shilling]].</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><br /></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><br /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>==History==</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>==History==</div></td> </tr> </table><hr class='diff-hr' id='mw-oldid' /> <h2 class='diff-currentversion-title'>Revision as of 22:10, 18 November 2024</h2> <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div 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For the European coin, see <a href="/wiki/Schilling_(coin)" title="Schilling (coin)">Schilling (coin)</a>. For the Austrian coin, see <a href="/wiki/Austrian_schilling" title="Austrian schilling">Austrian schilling</a>. 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data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="777" /></a><figcaption>A 1933 UK shilling</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BritishShilling.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/BritishShilling.jpeg/250px-BritishShilling.jpeg" decoding="async" width="250" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/BritishShilling.jpeg/375px-BritishShilling.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/BritishShilling.jpeg/500px-BritishShilling.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="205" /></a><figcaption>1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>shilling</b> is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currencies</a> formerly used in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australia</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, other <a href="/wiki/British_Commonwealth" class="mw-redirect" title="British Commonwealth">British Commonwealth</a> countries and <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, where they were generally equivalent to 12 <a href="/wiki/Pence" class="mw-redirect" title="Pence">pence</a> or one-twentieth of a <a href="/wiki/Pound_(currency)" title="Pound (currency)">pound</a> before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s. </p><p>Currently the shilling is used as a currency in four east African countries: <a href="/wiki/Kenyan_shilling" title="Kenyan shilling">Kenya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanzanian_shilling" title="Tanzanian shilling">Tanzania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ugandan_shilling" title="Ugandan shilling">Uganda</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Somali_shilling" title="Somali shilling">Somalia</a>.</ref> The <a href="/wiki/East_African_Community" title="East African Community">East African Community</a> additionally plans to introduce an <a href="/wiki/East_African_shilling" title="East African shilling">East African shilling</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Coinage_in_Anglo-Saxon_England" title="Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England">Coinage in Anglo-Saxon England</a> and <a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius">Denarius</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Edward_VI_77001683.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Edward_VI_77001683.jpg/220px-Edward_VI_77001683.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="108" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Edward_VI_77001683.jpg/330px-Edward_VI_77001683.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Edward_VI_77001683.jpg/440px-Edward_VI_77001683.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="392" /></a><figcaption>English shilling minted under Edward VI, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1551</span></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zurich,_Schilling_1640.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg/220px-Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="118" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg/330px-Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg/440px-Zurich%2C_Schilling_1640.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="537" /></a><figcaption>Schilling coin of the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_city" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial city">imperial city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a>, minted in <a href="/wiki/Billon_(alloy)" title="Billon (alloy)">billon</a>, 1640</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg/170px-IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg/255px-IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg/340px-IIII_Schilling_Hamburg_Current_1728.jpg 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="713" /></a><figcaption>Silver 4 schilling coin, <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, 1728</figcaption></figure> <p>The word <i>shilling</i> comes from <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Saxon language">Anglo-Saxon</a> phrase "Scilling", a monetary term meaning literally 'twentieth of a pound', from the <a href="/wiki/Proto-Germanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Germanic">Proto-Germanic</a> root <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skiljan%C4%85" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skiljaną">skiljaną</a> meaning literally 'to separate, split, divide', from <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-">(s)kelH-</a> meaning 'to cut, split.' <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The word "Scilling" is mentioned in the earliest recorded <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a> law codes, those of <a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelberht_of_Kent" title="Æthelberht of Kent">Æthelberht of Kent</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Germanic root of the term Shilling, <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-" class="extiw" title="wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-">(s)kelH-</a>, has been theorized to come from a foreign currency; most probably the <a href="/wiki/Carthaginian_coinage" title="Carthaginian coinage">Phoenician Shekel</a>. Recent discoveries of antique British tin off the coasts of Israel and Turkey has confirmed probable trade between the middle-east and the British isles. <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In origin, the word <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schilling" class="extiw" title="wikt:schilling">schilling</a></i> designated the <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)"><i>solidus</i></a> of Late Antiquity, the <a href="/wiki/Gold_coin" title="Gold coin">gold coin</a> that replaced the <a href="/wiki/Aureus" title="Aureus">aureus</a> in the 4th century. The Anglo-Saxon <i>scillingas</i> of the 7th century were still small gold coins.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 796, <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne">Charlemagne</a> passed a monetary reform, based on the Carolingian silver pound (about 406.5 grams). The <i>schilling</i> was one-twentieth of a pound or about 20.3 grams of silver. One <i>schilling</i> had 12 <a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius"><i>denarii</i></a> or <a href="/wiki/French_denier" title="French denier"><i>deniers</i></a> ("pennies"). There were, however, no silver <i>schilling</i> coins in the Carolingian period, and gold <i>schillings</i> (equivalent to twelve silver <i><a href="/wiki/Pfennig" title="Pfennig">pfennigs</a></i>) were very rare.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the 12th century, larger silver coins of multiple <i>pfennig</i> weight were minted, known as <i>denarii grossi</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Groschen" title="Groschen">groschen</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Groat_(coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Groat (coin)">groats</a>). These heavier coins were valued at between 4 and 20 of the silver <i>denarii</i>. In the late medieval period, states of the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> began minting similar silver coins of multiple <i>pfennig</i> weight, some of them denominated as <i>schilling</i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the 16th century, numerous different types of <i>schilling</i> were minted in <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(English_coin)" title="Shilling (English coin)">English shilling</a> was the continuation of the <i>testoon</i> coin under <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI</a> and was first minted in 1551 minted in 92.5% "sterling" silver.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>By the 17th century, further devaluation resulted in <i>schillings</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire">Holy Roman Empire</a> being minted in <a href="/wiki/Billon_(alloy)" title="Billon (alloy)">billon</a> (majority base metal content) instead of <a href="/wiki/Silver" title="Silver">silver</a>, with 48 <i>schillings</i> to one <i><a href="/wiki/Reichsthaler" title="Reichsthaler">Reichsthaler</a></i>. The English (later British) shilling continued to be minted as a silver coin until 1946, although the silver content was debased from 1920 onwards.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Countries">Countries</h2></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Countries </th> <th>Currency </th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217</a> code </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Kenya.svg/45px-Flag_of_Kenya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kenyan_shilling" title="Kenyan shilling">Kenyan shilling</a> </td> <td>KES </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somalian_shilling" class="mw-redirect" title="Somalian shilling">Somalian shilling</a> </td> <td>SOS </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tanzania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Tanzania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tanzania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Tanzania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tanzania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Tanzania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tanzanian_shilling" title="Tanzanian shilling">Tanzanian shilling</a> </td> <td>TZS </td></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Uganda.svg/23px-Flag_of_Uganda.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Uganda.svg/35px-Flag_of_Uganda.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Flag_of_Uganda.svg/45px-Flag_of_Uganda.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ugandan_shilling" title="Ugandan shilling">Ugandan shilling</a> </td> <td>UGX </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unrecognized_countries">Unrecognized countries</h3></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Countries </th> <th>Currency </th> <th><a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217</a> code </th></tr> <tr> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Somaliland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somaliland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Somaliland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somaliland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_of_Somaliland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Somaliland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Somaliland_shilling" title="Somaliland shilling">Somaliland shilling</a> </td> <td>SOS </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="British_Isles">British Isles</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kingdom_of_England">Kingdom of England</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(English_coin)" title="Shilling (English coin)">Shilling (English coin)</a></div> <p>A shilling was a coin used in England from the reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (or <a href="/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward VI of England">Edward VI</a> around 1550). The shilling continued in use after the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_of_1707" class="mw-redirect" title="Acts of Union of 1707">Acts of Union of 1707</a> created a new United Kingdom from the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, and under Article 16 of the Articles of Union, a common currency for the new United Kingdom was created. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kingdom_of_Scotland">Kingdom of Scotland</h3></div> <p>The term <i>shilling</i> (<a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>: <i lang="sco">schilling</i>) was in use in Scotland from early medieval times. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Great_Britain,_then_the_United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland"><span id="Great_Britain.2C_then_the_United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland"></span>Great Britain, then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(British_coin)" title="Shilling (British coin)">Shilling (British coin)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Britain,_1853_-_1_shilling,_Victoria.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg/220px-Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg/330px-Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg/440px-Great_Britain%2C_1853_-_1_shilling%2C_Victoria.jpg 2x" data-file-width="757" data-file-height="383" /></a><figcaption>One shilling, 1853 (reign of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>). Silver, weight 5.64 g.</figcaption></figure> <p>The common currency for <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">Great Britain</a>, created in 1707 by Article 16 of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Union" title="Treaty of Union">Articles of Union</a> between England and Scotland, continued in use until <a href="/wiki/Decimal_Day" title="Decimal Day">decimalisation</a> in 1971. During the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recoinage_of_1816" title="Great Recoinage of 1816">Great Recoinage of 1816</a> (following the <a href="/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800" title="Acts of Union 1800">Acts of Union 1800</a> that united the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland), the mint was instructed to coin one <a href="/wiki/Troy_pound" class="mw-redirect" title="Troy pound">troy pound</a> (weighing 5760 grains or 373 g) of <a href="/wiki/Sterling_silver" title="Sterling silver">sterling silver</a> (0.925 fine) into 66 shillings, or its equivalent in other denominations.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This set the weight of the shilling at 87.2727 grains or 5.655 grams from 1816 until 1990, when it was <a href="/wiki/Legal_tender#Demonetization" title="Legal tender">demonetised</a> in favour of a new smaller <a href="/wiki/Five_pence_(British_coin)" title="Five pence (British coin)">5p</a> coin of the same value. </p><p>At decimalisation in 1971, the shilling coin was superseded by the <a href="/wiki/British_five_pence_coin" class="mw-redirect" title="British five pence coin">new five-pence piece</a>, which initially was of identical size and weight and had the same value. Shillings remained in circulation until the five pence coin was reduced in size in 1991. </p><p>Three coins denominated in multiple shillings were also in circulation at this time. They were: </p> <ul><li>the <a href="/wiki/Two_shillings_(British_coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Two shillings (British coin)">florin</a>, two shillings (2/–), which adopted the value of 10 new pence (10p) at decimalisation;</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Half_crown_(British_coin)" title="Half crown (British coin)">half-crown</a>, two shillings and sixpence (2/6) or one-eighth of a pound, which was abolished at decimalisation (otherwise it would have had the value of 12<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1214402035">.mw-parser-output .sfrac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .sfrac.tion,.mw-parser-output .sfrac .tion{display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.5em;font-size:85%;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .num{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.0em 0.1em;border-bottom:1px solid}.mw-parser-output .sfrac .den{display:block;line-height:1em;margin:0.1em 0.1em}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="sfrac">⁠<span class="tion"><span class="num">1</span><span class="sr-only">/</span><span class="den">2</span></span>⁠</span>p);</li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Crown_(British_coin)" title="Crown (British coin)">crown</a> (five shillings or one-fourth of a pound), the highest-denominated non-bullion UK coin in circulation at decimalisation (in practice, crowns were commemorative coins not used in everyday transactions).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Irish_shillings"><span class="anchor" id="Ireland"></span>Irish shillings</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(Irish_coin)" title="Shilling (Irish coin)">Shilling (Irish coin)</a></div> <p>Between 1701 and the unification of the currencies in 1825, the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Ireland" title="Kingdom of Ireland">Irish</a> shilling was valued at 13 pence and known as the "black hog", as opposed to the 12-pence English shillings which were known as "white hogs".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Free_State" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> and <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland">Republic of Ireland</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(Irish_coin)" title="Shilling (Irish coin)">shilling coin</a> was issued as <span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">scilling</i></span> (the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a> equivalent). It was worth 1/20 of an <a href="/wiki/Irish_pound" title="Irish pound">Irish pound</a>, and was interchangeable at the same value to the British coin, which continued to be used in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. The coin featured a bull on the reverse side. The first minting, from 1928 until 1941, contained 75% silver, more than the equivalent British coin. The pre-decimal Irish shilling coin (which was retained for some time after decimalisation) was withdrawn from circulation on 1 January 1993, when a smaller five-pence coin was introduced. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Abbreviation_and_slang">Abbreviation and slang</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png/110px-Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png/165px-Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png/220px-Alice_par_John_Tenniel_38.png 2x" data-file-width="482" data-file-height="678" /></a><figcaption>The price tag on the <a href="/wiki/The_Hatter" class="mw-redirect" title="The Hatter">Hatter's</a> hat reads '10/6'</figcaption></figure> <p>One abbreviation for shilling is <b>s</b> (for <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)">solidus</a></i></span>, see <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">£sd</a>). Often it was expressed by a <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(punctuation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Solidus (punctuation)">solidus symbol</a> (<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">/</span>) (which may have begun as a substitute for <span class="nowrap"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">ſ</span> ('<a href="/wiki/Long_s" title="Long s">long s</a>')</span><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) thus '1/9' means "one shilling and ninepence". A price expressed as a number of shillings with no additional <a href="/wiki/Penny_(British_pre-decimal_coin)" title="Penny (British pre-decimal coin)">pence</a> was often written as the number, a solidus and a dash: thus for example ten shillings was written '10/-'. Two shillings and sixpence (half a crown, or an eighth of a £) was written as '2/6', rarely as '2s<span class="nowrap"> </span>6d' ('d' being the abbreviation for <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius">denarius</a></i></span>, a penny). The shilling itself was equal to twelve pence. In the traditional <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">pounds, shillings and pence</a> system, there were 20 shillings per pound and 12 pence per shilling, making 240 pence in a pound. </p><p>Slang terms for the old shilling coins include "bob" and "hog". While the derivation of "bob" is uncertain, <a href="/wiki/John_Camden_Hotten" title="John Camden Hotten">John Camden Hotten</a> in his 1864 <i>Slang Dictionary</i> says the original version was "bobstick" and speculates that it may be connected with <a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Walpole" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Robert Walpole">Sir Robert Walpole</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="British_Empire">British Empire</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg/220px-Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg/330px-Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg/440px-Two_shilling_coin_from_British_West_Africa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="642" data-file-height="317" /></a><figcaption>Owing to the reach of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>, the shilling was once used on every inhabited continent. This two-shilling piece was minted for <a href="/wiki/British_West_Africa" title="British West Africa">British West Africa</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Australian_shillings">Australian shillings</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Shilling_(Australian)" title="Shilling (Australian)">Shilling (Australian)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> shillings, twenty of which made up one <a href="/wiki/Australian_pound" title="Australian pound">Australian pound</a>, were first issued in 1910, with the Australian <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> on the reverse and King <a href="/wiki/Edward_VII" title="Edward VII">Edward VII</a> on the face. The coat of arms design was retained through the reign of King <a href="/wiki/George_V" title="George V">George V</a> until a new ram's head design was introduced for the coins of King <a href="/wiki/George_VI" title="George VI">George VI</a>. This design continued until the last year of issue in 1963. In 1966, Australia's currency was <a href="/wiki/Decimalisation" title="Decimalisation">decimalised</a> and the shilling was replaced by a <a href="/wiki/Ten_cent_coin_(Australian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ten cent coin (Australian)">ten cent coin (Australian)</a>, where 10 shillings made up one <a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">Australian dollar</a>. </p><p>The slang term for a shilling coin in Australia was "deener". The slang term for a shilling as currency unit was "bob", the same as in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. </p><p>After 1966, shillings continued to circulate, as they were replaced by ten-cent coins of the same size and weight. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_Zealand_shilling">New Zealand shilling</h3></div> <p><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a> shillings, twenty of which made up one <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_pound" title="New Zealand pound">New Zealand pound</a>, were first issued in 1933 and featured the image of a Maori warrior carrying a taiaha "in a warlike attitude" on the reverse.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1967, New Zealand's currency was <a href="/wiki/Decimalisation" title="Decimalisation">decimalised</a> and the shilling was replaced by a ten-cent coin of the same size and weight. Ten-cent coins minted through the remainder of the 1960s included the legend "ONE SHILLING" on the reverse. Smaller ten-cent coins were introduced in 2006. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Maltese_shillings">Maltese shillings</h3></div> <p>The shilling (<a href="/wiki/Maltese_language" title="Maltese language">Maltese</a>: <i lang="mt">xelin</i>, pl. <i>xelini</i>) was used in <a href="/wiki/Malta" title="Malta">Malta</a>, prior to <a href="/wiki/Decimalisation" title="Decimalisation">decimalisation</a> in 1972, and had a face value of five Maltese <a href="/wiki/Cent_(currency)" title="Cent (currency)">cents</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ceylonese_shillings">Ceylonese shillings</h3></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/British_Ceylon" title="British Ceylon">British Ceylon</a>, a shilling (<a href="/wiki/Sinhala_language" title="Sinhala language">Sinhala</a>: <i lang="si">Silima</i>, <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a>: <i lang="ta">Silin</i>) was equivalent to eight <a href="/wiki/Madras_fanam" title="Madras fanam">fanams</a>. With the replacement of the <a href="/wiki/Ceylonese_rixdollar" title="Ceylonese rixdollar">rixdollar</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Rupee" title="Rupee">rupee</a> in 1852, a shilling was deemed to be equivalent to half a rupee. On the decimalisation of the currency in 1969, a shilling was deemed to be equivalent to 50 Ceylon cents. The term continued to be used colloquially until the late 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="East_African_shillings">East African shillings</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:African_use_of_the_shilling.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/African_use_of_the_shilling.png/220px-African_use_of_the_shilling.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/African_use_of_the_shilling.png/330px-African_use_of_the_shilling.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/African_use_of_the_shilling.png/440px-African_use_of_the_shilling.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Countries in <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> where the currency is called shilling.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/East_African_shilling" title="East African shilling">East African shilling</a> was in use in the <a href="/wiki/UK" class="mw-redirect" title="UK">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Colony" title="Colony">colonies</a> and <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorates</a> of <a href="/wiki/British_Somaliland" title="British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanganyika_(territory)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tanganyika (territory)">Tanganyika</a>, <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> and <a href="/wiki/Zanzibar" title="Zanzibar">Zanzibar</a> from 1920, when it replaced the <a href="/wiki/Rupee" title="Rupee">rupee</a>, until after those countries became independent, and in <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> after that country was formed by the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964. Upon independence in 1960, the East African shilling in the <a href="/wiki/British_Somaliland" title="British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Somali_somalo" class="mw-redirect" title="Somali somalo">Somali somalo</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Trust_Territory_of_Somalia" class="mw-redirect" title="Trust Territory of Somalia">Trust Territory of Somalia</a> were replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Somali_shilling" title="Somali shilling">Somali shilling</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966, the East African Monetary Union broke up, and the member countries replaced their currencies with the <a href="/wiki/Kenyan_shilling" title="Kenyan shilling">Kenyan shilling</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ugandan_shilling" title="Ugandan shilling">Ugandan shilling</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tanzanian_shilling" title="Tanzanian shilling">Tanzanian shilling</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though all these currencies have different values at present, there were plans to reintroduce the <a href="/wiki/East_African_shilling" title="East African shilling">East African shilling</a> as a new common currency by 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although this has not come about. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_America">North America</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_(NYPL_b11868620-5339332).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg/220px-Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg/330px-Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg/440px-Georgia_paper_money._One_shilling_%28NYPL_b11868620-5339332%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1729" data-file-height="1048" /></a><figcaption>One-shilling note from Georgia, United States, 1776. The twelve dark circles indicate that there are twelve pence in a shilling.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" title="Thirteen Colonies">thirteen British colonies</a> that became the United States in 1776, British money was often in circulation. Each colony issued its <a href="/wiki/Early_American_currency" title="Early American currency">own paper money</a>, with <a href="/wiki/%C2%A3sd" title="£sd">pounds, shillings, and pence</a> used as the standard <a href="/wiki/Units_of_account" class="mw-redirect" title="Units of account">units of account</a>. Some coins were minted in the colonies, such as <a href="/wiki/The_pine_tree_shilling" class="mw-redirect" title="The pine tree shilling">the pine tree shilling</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony">Massachusetts Bay Colony</a>. After the United States adopted the <a href="/wiki/Dollar" title="Dollar">dollar</a> as its unit of currency and accepted the <a href="/wiki/Gold_standard" title="Gold standard">gold standard</a>, one British shilling was worth 24 US <a href="/wiki/Cent_(currency)" title="Cent (currency)">cents</a>. Due to ongoing shortages of US coins in some regions, shillings continued to circulate well into the nineteenth century. Shillings are described as the standard monetary unit throughout the autobiography of <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Northup" title="Solomon Northup">Solomon Northup</a> (1853)<sup id="cite_ref-Northup_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Northup-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and mentioned several times in the <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Alger_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Alger Jr.">Horatio Alger Jr.</a> story <i><a href="/wiki/Ragged_Dick" title="Ragged Dick">Ragged Dick</a></i> (1868).<sup id="cite_ref-RD_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RD-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SS1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SS1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prices in an 1859 advertisement in a Chicago newspaper were given in dollars and shillings.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, £sd currencies were in use both during the French period (<a href="/wiki/New_France_livre" title="New France livre">New France livre</a>) and after the <a href="/wiki/Conquest_of_New_France_(1758%E2%80%931760)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conquest of New France (1758–1760)">British conquest</a> (<a href="/wiki/Canadian_pound" title="Canadian pound">Canadian pound</a>). Between the 1760s and 1840s in <a href="/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada">Lower Canada</a>, both French and British-based pounds coexisted as units of account, the French livre being close in value to the British shilling. A variety of coinage circulated. By 1858, a decimal <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar#History" title="Canadian dollar">Canadian dollar</a> came into use. Other parts of <a href="/wiki/British_North_America" title="British North America">British North America</a> decimalized shortly afterwards and <a href="/wiki/Canadian_confederation" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian confederation">Canadian confederation</a> in 1867 passed control of currency to the federal government. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Somali_shilling">Somali shilling</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Somali_shilling" title="Somali shilling">Somali shilling</a></div> <p>The Somali shilling is the official <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currency</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>. It is subdivided into 100 <i>cents</i> (English), <i>senti</i> (Somali, also سنت) or <i>centesimi</i> (Italian). </p><p>The Somali shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the <a href="/wiki/East_African_shilling" title="East African shilling">East African shilling</a> was introduced to the former <a href="/wiki/British_Somaliland" title="British Somaliland">British Somaliland</a> <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorate</a>. Following independence in 1960, the <a href="/wiki/Somali_somalo" class="mw-redirect" title="Somali somalo">somalo</a> of <a href="/wiki/Italian_Somaliland" title="Italian Somaliland">Italian Somaliland</a> and the East African shilling (which were equal in value) were replaced at par in 1962 by the Somali shilling. Names used for the denominations were cent, centesimo (plural: centesimi) and سنت (plurals: سنتيمات and سنتيما) together with shilling, scellino (plural: scellini) and شلن. </p><p>That same year, the <i>Banca Nazionale Somala</i> issued notes for 5, 10, 20 and 100 scellini/shillings. In 1975, the <i>Bankiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed</i> (Somali National Bank) introduced notes for 5, 10, 20 and 100 shilin/shillings. These were followed in 1978 by notes of the same denominations issued by the <i>Bankiga Dhexe Ee Soomaaliya</i> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Bank_of_Somalia" title="Central Bank of Somalia">Central Bank of Somalia</a>). 50 shilin/shillings notes were introduced in 1983, followed by 500 shilin/shillings in 1989 and 1000 shilin/shillings in 1990. Also in 1990 there was an attempt to reform the currency at 100 to 1, with new banknotes of 20 and 50 new shilin prepared for the redenomination.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the breakdown in central authority that accompanied the <a href="/wiki/Somali_Civil_War" title="Somali Civil War">civil war</a>, which began in the early 1990s, the value of the Somali shilling was disrupted. The Central Bank of Somalia, the nation's monetary authority, also shut down operations. Rival producers of the local currency, including autonomous regional entities such as the <a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a> territory, subsequently emerged. </p><p>Somalia's newly established <a href="/wiki/Transitional_Federal_Government" class="mw-redirect" title="Transitional Federal Government">Transitional Federal Government</a> revived the defunct Central Bank of Somalia in the late 2000s. In terms of financial management, the monetary authority is in the process of assuming the task of both formulating and implementing monetary policy.<sup id="cite_ref-Monpol_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monpol-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owing to a lack of confidence in the Somali shilling, the US dollar is widely accepted as a medium of exchange alongside the Somali shilling. <a href="/wiki/Dollarization" class="mw-redirect" title="Dollarization">Dollarization</a> notwithstanding, the large issuance of the Somali shilling has increasingly fueled price hikes, especially for low value transactions. This inflationary environment, however, is expected to come to an end as soon as the Central Bank assumes full control of monetary policy and replaces the presently circulating currency introduced by the private sector.<sup id="cite_ref-Monpol_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Monpol-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Somaliland_shilling">Somaliland shilling</h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Somaliland_shilling" title="Somaliland shilling">Somaliland shilling</a> is the official currency of <a href="/wiki/Somaliland" title="Somaliland">Somaliland</a>, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognised as an <a href="/wiki/States_and_regions_of_Somalia" title="States and regions of Somalia">autonomous region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sqfirath_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sqfirath-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The currency is not recognised as <a href="/wiki/Legal_tender" title="Legal tender">legal tender</a> by the international community, and it currently has no official <a href="/wiki/Exchange_rate" title="Exchange rate">exchange rate</a>. It is regulated by the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Somaliland" title="Bank of Somaliland">Bank of Somaliland</a>, Somaliland's <a href="/wiki/Central_bank" title="Central bank">central bank</a>. Although the authorities in Somaliland have attempted to bar usage of the Somali shilling, Somalia's official currency is still in circulation in some regions.<sup id="cite_ref-Tfstris_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tfstris-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="Eleven years old source and maybe is an opinion piece (July 2020)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div> <p>Elsewhere in the former British Empire, forms of the word <i>shilling</i> remain in informal use. In <a href="/wiki/Vanuatu" title="Vanuatu">Vanuatu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a>, <i>selen</i> is used in <a href="/wiki/Bislama" title="Bislama">Bislama</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pijin_language" title="Pijin language">Pijin</a> to mean "money"; in <a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>, <i>syiling</i> (pronounced like <i>shilling</i>) means "coin". In <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jordan" title="Jordan">Jordan</a> the <i>shillin</i> (<a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">شلن</span>) is equal to 1/20 (five <i>qirshes</i> — <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">قرش</span>, English: <span lang="en"><a href="/wiki/Piastre" title="Piastre">piastres</a></span>) of the <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pound" title="Egyptian pound">Egyptian pound</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Jordanian_dinar" title="Jordanian dinar">Jordanian dinar</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>, the term <i>shilling</i> is commonly used to refer to twenty-five cents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_countries">Other countries</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Skilling_1802,_Nordisk_familjebok.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/220px-Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/330px-Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png/440px-Skilling_1802%2C_Nordisk_familjebok.png 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="308" /></a><figcaption>A Swedish <a href="/wiki/Skilling_(currency)" title="Skilling (currency)">Skilling</a> from 1802</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Austrian_schilling" title="Austrian schilling">Austrian schilling</a> was the currency of Austria between 1 March 1924<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 1938 and again between 1945 and 2002. It was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a> at a fixed parity of €1 = 13.7603 schilling. The schilling was divided into 100 <a href="/wiki/Groschen" title="Groschen">groschen</a>.</li> <li>In the principalities covering present Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, the cognate term <i>schelling</i> was used as an equivalent 'arithmetic' currency, a 'solidus' representing 12 'denarii' or 1/20 'pound', while actual coins were rarely physical multiples of it, but still expressed in these terms.</li> <li>Shillings were issued in the Scandinavian countries <i>(<a href="/wiki/Skilling_(Scandinavian_monetary_unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Skilling (Scandinavian monetary unit)">skilling</a>)</i> until the <a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_Monetary_Union" title="Scandinavian Monetary Union">Scandinavian Monetary Union</a> of 1873, and in the city of <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a>, Germany.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a> <i>szeląg</i> was used.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <i>soll</i>, later the <i>sou</i>, both also derived from the Roman <a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)" title="Solidus (coin)">solidus</a>, were the equivalent coins in <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>, while the <a href="/wiki/Peruvian_sol" title="Peruvian sol">sol</a> (PEN) remains the currency of <a href="/wiki/Peru" title="Peru">Peru</a>.</li> <li>As in France, the Peruvian sol was originally named after the Roman solidus, but the name of the Peruvian currency is now much more closely linked to the Spanish word for the sun (<i>sol</i>). This helps explain the name of its temporary replacement, the <a href="/wiki/Peruvian_inti" title="Peruvian inti">inti</a>, named for the <a href="/wiki/Andean_civilizations" title="Andean civilizations">Incan</a> sun god.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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<li><a href="/wiki/Malawian_pound#Coins" title="Malawian pound">Malawian shilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_tree_shilling" title="Pine tree shilling">Massachusetts pine tree shilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schilling_(coin)#Mecklenburg" title="Schilling (coin)">Mecklenburg schilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_pound#Coins" title="New Zealand pound">New Zealand shilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_pound#Coins" title="Nigerian pound">Nigerian shilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papal_lira#Coins" title="Papal lira">Papal soldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parman_lira#Coins" title="Parman lira">Parman soldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peruvian_sol_(1863%E2%80%931985)" title="Peruvian sol (1863–1985)">Peruvian sol de oro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Szel%C4%85g_(coin)" class="mw-redirect" title="Szeląg (coin)">Polish szeląg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)#Spain_and_Peru,_Portugal_and_Brazil" title="Solidus (coin)">Portuguese soldo</a></li> <li><a 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African sjieling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solidus_(coin)#Spain_and_Peru,_Portugal_and_Brazil" title="Solidus (coin)">Spanish sueldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ticinese_franco" title="Ticinese franco">Ticinese soldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuscan_lira" title="Tuscan lira">Tuscan soldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_shah" title="Ukrainian shah">Ukrainian shah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venetian_lira" title="Venetian lira">Venetian soldo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl#The_Wörgl_Experiment" title="Wörgl">Wörgl schilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schilling_(coin)#Württemberg" title="Schilling (coin)">Württemberg schilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zambian_pound#Coins" title="Zambian pound">Zambian shilling</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">As a denomination</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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