Editing Shilling (section)

==British Empire and Commonwealth==
[[File:Two shilling coin from British West Africa.jpg|right|thumb|Owing to the reach of the [[British Empire]], the shilling was once used on every inhabited continent. This two-shilling piece was minted for [[British West Africa]].]]

===Australian shillings===
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[[Australia]]n shillings, twenty of which made up one [[Australian pound]], were first issued in 1910, with the Australian [[coat of arms]] on the reverse and King [[Edward VII]] on the face. The coat of arms design was retained through the reign of King [[George V]] until a new ram's head design was introduced for the coins of King [[George VI]]. This design continued until the last year of issue in 1963. In 1966, Australia's currency was [[decimalisation|decimalised]] and the shilling was replaced by a [[ten&nbsp;cent coin (Australian)]], where 10 shillings made up one [[Australian dollar]].

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 [[United Kingdom]].

After 1966, shillings continued to circulate, as they were replaced by ten-cent coins of the same size and weight.

===New Zealand shilling===
[[New Zealand]] shillings, twenty of which made up one [[New Zealand pound]], were first issued in 1933 and featured the image of a Maori warrior carrying a taiaha "in a warlike attitude" on the reverse.<ref>[http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/money/0094086.html Reserve Bank of New Zealand] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123153550/http://rbnz.govt.nz/currency/Money/0094086.html |date=23 January 2009}}- URL retrieved 17 April 2011</ref> In 1967, New Zealand's currency was [[decimalisation|decimalised]] 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.

=== Maltese shillings ===
The shilling ({{langx|mt|xelin}}, pl. ''xelini'') was used in [[Malta]], prior to [[decimalisation]] in 1972, and had a face value of five Maltese [[Cent (currency)|cents]].

=== Ceylonese shillings ===
In [[British Ceylon]], a shilling ({{langx|si|Silima}}, {{langx|ta|Silin}}) was equivalent to eight [[Madras fanam|fanams]]. With the replacement of the [[Ceylonese rixdollar|rixdollar]] by the [[rupee]] 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.<ref>[http://lakdiva.org/coins/lanka_monetary.html Early Monetary Systems of Lanka (Ceylon)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622013727/http://lakdiva.org/coins/lanka_monetary.html |date=22 June 2011 }}, Currency Museum Circular No 7, Currency Department, [[Central Bank of Ceylon]], Colombo, 15 March 1984</ref>

===East African shillings===
[[File:African use of the shilling.png|thumb|Countries in [[Africa]] where the currency is called shilling.]]
The [[East African shilling]] was in use in the [[uK|British]] [[colony|colonies]] and [[protectorate]]s of [[British Somaliland]], [[Kenya]], [[Tanganyika (territory)|Tanganyika]], [[Uganda]] and [[Zanzibar]] from 1920, when it replaced the [[rupee]], until after those countries became independent, and in [[Tanzania]] after that country was formed by the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964. Upon independence in 1960, the East African shilling in the [[British Somaliland]] and the [[Somali somalo]] in the [[Trust Territory of Somalia]] were replaced by the [[Somali shilling]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310154823/http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/index.php3?action=detailedinfo&id=5597#metadata Description of Somalia shilling] - URL retrieved 8 October 2006</ref>

In 1966, the East African Monetary Union broke up, and the member countries replaced their currencies with the [[Kenyan shilling]], the [[Ugandan shilling]] and the [[Tanzanian shilling]], respectively.<ref>[http://www.kituochakatiba.co.ug/eac3.htm Dissolution of the East African Monetary Union] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311042801/http://www.kituochakatiba.co.ug/eac3.htm |date=11 March 2007}} – URL retrieved 8 October 2006</ref> Though all these currencies have different values at present, there were plans to reintroduce the [[East African shilling]] as a new common currency by 2009,<ref>[http://www.eabc-online.com/tf/fs_customs_union.php East African Business Council - Fact Sheet: Customs Union] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310150929/http://www.eabc-online.com/tf/fs_customs_union.php |date=10 March 2007}} - URL Retrieved 8 October 2002</ref> although this has not come about.

=== North America ===
[[File:Georgia paper money. One shilling (NYPL b11868620-5339332).jpg|thumb|One-shilling note from Georgia, United States, 1776. The twelve dark circles indicate that there are twelve pence in a shilling.]]
In the [[Thirteen Colonies|thirteen British colonies]] that became the United States in 1776, British money was often in circulation. Each colony issued its [[early American currency|own paper money]], with [[£sd|pounds, shillings, and pence]] used as the standard [[units of account]]. Some coins were minted in the colonies, such as [[the pine tree shilling]] in the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]]. After the United States adopted the [[dollar]] as its unit of currency and accepted the [[gold standard]], one British shilling was worth 24 US [[cent (currency)|cents]]. 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 [[Solomon Northup]] (1853)<ref name="Northup">Solomon Northup. ''Twelve Years a Slave''. Auburn, Derby and Miller; Buffalo, Derby, Orton and Mulligan; [etc., etc.] 1853</ref> and mentioned several times in the [[Horatio Alger Jr.]] story ''[[Ragged Dick]]'' (1868).<ref name="RD">{{cite book |last=Alger |first=Horatio Jr |title=Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks |publisher=A K Loring |location=New York |date=5 May 1868 |edition=1}}</ref><ref name="SS1">{{cite web |last=Lundin |first=Leigh |title=Literary Rags |url=http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2014/05/literary-rags.html |url-status=live |website=SleuthSayers.org |publisher=SleuthSayers |location=New York |date=11 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811051657/http://www.sleuthsayers.org/2014/05/literary-rags.html |archive-date=11 August 2014 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> Prices in an 1859 advertisement in a Chicago newspaper were given in dollars and shillings.<ref>{{cite news |title=Special Notice |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100489846/silk-sale-shillings-in-prices/ |url-status=live |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=9 December 1859 |page=2 |access-date=26 April 2022 |via=[[newspapers.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426124916/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/100489846/silk-sale-shillings-in-prices/ |archive-date=26 April 2022}}</ref>

In [[Canada]], £sd currencies were in use both during the French period ([[New France livre]]) and after the [[Conquest of New France (1758–1760)|British conquest]] ([[Canadian pound]]). Between the 1760s and 1840s in [[Lower Canada]], 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 [[Canadian dollar#History|Canadian dollar]] came into use. Other parts of [[British North America]] decimalized shortly afterwards and [[Canadian confederation]] in 1867 passed control of currency to the federal government.

===Somali shilling===
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The Somali shilling is the official [[currency]] of [[Somalia]]. It is subdivided into 100 ''cents'' (English), ''senti'' (Somali, also سنت) or ''centesimi'' (Italian).

The Somali shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the [[East African shilling]] was introduced to the former [[British Somaliland]] [[protectorate]]. Following independence in 1960, the [[Somali somalo|somalo]] of [[Italian Somaliland]] 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.

That same year, the ''Banca Nazionale Somala'' issued notes for 5, 10, 20 and 100 scellini/shillings. In 1975, the ''Bankiga Qaranka Soomaaliyeed'' (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 ''Bankiga Dhexe Ee Soomaaliya'' ([[Central Bank of Somalia]]). 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://somalbanca.org/currency.html|title=CURRENCY|website=somalbanca.org|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227210259/http://somalbanca.org/currency.html|archive-date=27 December 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Following the breakdown in central authority that accompanied the [[Somali Civil War|civil war]], 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 [[Somaliland]] territory, subsequently emerged.

Somalia's newly established [[Transitional Federal Government]] 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.<ref name="Monpol"/> 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. [[Dollarization]] 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.<ref name="Monpol">{{cite web|url=http://www.somalbanca.org/monetary-policy.html|title=Central Bank of Somalia - Monetary policy|website=somalbanca.org|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125062011/http://somalbanca.org/monetary-policy.html|archive-date=25 January 2009|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

===Somaliland shilling===
The [[Somaliland shilling]] is the official currency of [[Somaliland]], a self-declared republic that is internationally recognised as an [[States and regions of Somalia|autonomous region]] of [[Somalia]].<ref name="Sqfirath">{{cite web|url=http://wardheernews.com/Articles_2010/June/Buh/29_Somaliland_recognition_&_the_HBM-SSC_Factor.html|title=Somaliland's Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor|website=wardheernews.com|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528122058/http://wardheernews.com/Articles_2010/June/Buh/29_Somaliland_recognition_%26_the_HBM-SSC_Factor.html|archive-date=28 May 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The currency is not recognised as [[legal tender]] by the international community, and it currently has no official [[exchange rate]]. It is regulated by the [[Bank of Somaliland]], Somaliland's [[central bank]]. 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.<ref name="Tfstris">{{cite web|url=http://www.hiiraan.com/op2/2009/aug/time_for_somaliland_to_rethink_its_strategy.aspx|title=Time for Somaliland to Rethink its Strategy|website=www.hiiraan.com|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914215741/https://www.hiiraan.com/op2/2009/aug/time_for_somaliland_to_rethink_its_strategy.aspx|archive-date=14 September 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Eleven years old source and maybe is an opinion piece|date=July 2020}}

===Other===
Elsewhere in the former British Empire, forms of the word ''shilling'' remain in informal use.
In [[Vanuatu]] and [[Solomon Islands]], ''selen'' is used in [[Bislama]] and [[Pijin language|Pijin]] to mean "money"; in [[Malaysia]], ''syiling'' (pronounced like ''shilling'') means "coin". In [[Egypt]] and [[Jordan]] the ''shillin'' ({{langx|ar|شلن}}) is equal to 1/20 (five ''qirshes'' — {{langx|ar|قرش}}, {{langx|en|[[piastre]]s}}) of the [[Egyptian pound]] or the [[Jordanian dinar]]. In [[Belize]], the term ''shilling'' is commonly used to refer to twenty-five cents.