Editing Shilling (section)

===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.