Editing Shilling (section)

=== 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.