A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency.
Measure of money used only for accounting purposes and equal to 12 pennies. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms)
Measure of money used for accounting purposes and equal to 12 old pennies. Until modern times, there was no actual coin. (Now replaced by 5 new pence.)
Originally, not an actual coin, but a measure of money used for accounting purposes: The amount of silver equivalent to 12 silver pennies. (This varied at times because the amount of silver in pennies varied.) King Henry Tudor and Henry Vlll minted the first actual coins worth 12 pennies, the Testoon and the Shilling. The small silvery shilling coin has now been replaced by the 5 new pence coin. By coincidence, the Anglo-Saxon scilling, skilling or scylling had been worth 5 silver pennies. Comparable to the French Sol or Sou. (From the Roman Solidus.) Many countries around the world, including most of the former British Empire have had shilling coins. While in Botswana in the 1980s, a local farmer offered me some melons priced in shillings, although the old East African Shilling had long since been replaced first by the Rand and then by the Pula.
the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
a former monetary unit in Great Britain
an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
Twelve old pence (5 new pence). There were twenty shillings in a pound. For more information on the currency of the time, see Coinage, Currency and the Cost of Living.
colonial America coin, varying in value from 12 to 16 cents; monetary unit of the United Kingdom equal to 5 (new) pennies or 1/20 of a pound. Symbol: /.
solidus Money for accounting purposes (there was no actual coin) worth twelve pennies.
Pre-decimal currency equal to 12 pennies and equivalent to 5p today.
an English coin equivalent to twelve pennies or one twentieth of a pound
twelve old pence (five pence in today’s money).
Monetary unit of Great Britain; one shilling equals 12 pence; 1/20th of a pound; written, i.e.: 15/ = 15 shillings.
Before decimalisation in 1971, a shilling had a value of 12d (old pence), and was equal to 1/20th of a pound: there were 240 (old) pence to the pound.