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[[File:1933 Shilling.jpg|thumb|250px|A 1933 UK shilling]]
[[File:BritishShilling.jpeg|thumb|250px|1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses]]

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.

Currently the shilling is used as a currency in five east African countries: [[Kenyan shilling|Kenya]], [[Tanzanian shilling|Tanzania]], [[Ugandan shilling|Uganda]], [[Somali shilling|Somalia]], and the ''de facto'' country of [[Somaliland shilling|Somaliland]].<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}}</ref> The [[East African Community]] additionally plans to introduce an [[East African shilling]].

==History==
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[[File:Edward VI 77001683.jpg|thumb|English shilling minted under Edward VI, {{c.|1551}}]]
[[File:Zurich, Schilling 1640.jpeg|thumb|Schilling coin of the [[imperial city]] of [[Zürich]], minted in [[Billon (alloy)|billon]], 1640]]
[[File:IIII Schilling Hamburg Current 1728.jpg|thumb|upright|Silver 4 schilling coin, [[Hamburg]], 1728]]
The word ''shilling'' comes from [[Anglo-Saxon language|Anglo-Saxon]] phrase "Scilling", a monetary term meaning literally "twentieth of a pound", from the [[Proto-Germanic]] root [[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skiljaną|skiljaną]] meaning literally "to separate, split, divide", from [[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-|(s)kelH-]] meaning "to cut, split."{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} The word "Scilling" is mentioned in the earliest recorded [[Germanic peoples|Germanic]] law codes, the [[Law of Æthelberht]] ({{circa|600}}).{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

The Germanic root of the term Shilling, [[:wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/(s)kelH-|(s)kelH-]], has been theorized to come from a foreign currency; most probably the [[Carthaginian coinage|Phoenician shekel]].{{cn|date=March 2025}} Discoveries in 2019 of antique British tin off the coasts of Israel and Turkey has confirmed probable trade between the Middle East and the British Isles.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theconversation.com/shillings-gods-and-runes-clues-in-language-suggest-a-semitic-superpower-in-ancient-northern-europe-139381 | title=Shillings, gods and runes: Clues in language suggest a Semitic superpower in ancient northern Europe | date=5 July 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/19/uk/cornwall-tin-israel-intl-scli-gbr/index.html | title=Ancient tin found in Israel has unexpected Cornish links | website=[[CNN]] | date=19 September 2019 }}</ref>

In origin, the word ''[[wikt:schilling|schilling]]'' designated the [[Solidus (coin)|''solidus'']] of Late Antiquity, the [[gold coin]] that replaced the [[aureus]] in the 4th century. The Anglo-Saxon ''scillingas'' of the 7th century were still small gold coins.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In 796, [[Charlemagne]] passed a monetary reform, based on the Carolingian silver pound (about 406.5 grams). The ''schilling'' was one-twentieth of a pound or about 20.3 grams of silver. One ''schilling'' had 12 [[denarius|''denarii'']] or [[French denier|''deniers'']] ("pennies"). There were, however, no silver ''schilling'' coins in the Carolingian period, and gold ''schillings'' (equivalent to twelve silver ''[[pfennig]]s'') were very rare.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In the 12th century, larger silver coins of multiple ''pfennig'' weight were minted, known as ''denarii grossi'' or ''[[groschen]]'' ([[Groat (coin)|groat]]s). These heavier coins were valued at between 4 and 20 of the silver ''denarii''. In the late medieval period, states of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] began minting similar silver coins of multiple ''pfennig'' weight, some of them denominated as ''schilling''.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In the 16th century, numerous different types of ''schilling'' were minted in [[Europe]]. The [[Shilling (English coin)|English shilling]] was a successor of the testoon coin first minted during the reign of [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] in 1551, which consisted of 92.5% "sterling" silver.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

By the 17th century, further devaluation resulted in ''schillings'' in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] being minted in [[billon (alloy)|billon]] (majority base metal content) instead of [[silver]], with 48 ''schillings'' to one ''[[Reichsthaler]]''. The English (later British) shilling continued to be minted as a silver coin until 1946, although the silver content was debased from 1920 onwards.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

==Countries==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Countries
! Currency
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| {{flag|Kenya}}
| [[Kenyan shilling]]
| KES
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| {{flag|Somalia}}
| [[Somali shilling]]
| SOS
|-
| {{flag|Tanzania}}
| [[Tanzanian shilling]]
| TZS
|-
| {{flag|Uganda}}
| [[Ugandan shilling]]
| UGX
|-
|}

===Unrecognized countries===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Countries
! Currency
! [[ISO 4217]] code
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| {{flag|Somaliland}}
| [[Somaliland shilling]]
| SOS
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|}

==British Isles==

===Kingdom of England===
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A shilling was a coin used in England from the reign of [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm|title=Understanding old British money - pounds, shillings and pence|website=woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927031546/http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/moneyold.htm|archive-date=27 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> (or [[Edward VI of England|Edward VI]] around 1550). The shilling continued in use after the [[Acts of Union of 1707]] 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.

===Kingdom of Scotland===
The term ''shilling'' ({{langx|sco|schilling}}) was in use in Scotland from early medieval times.

===Great Britain, then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland===
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[[File:Great Britain, 1853 - 1 shilling, Victoria.jpg|thumb|One shilling, 1853 (reign of [[Queen Victoria]]). Silver, weight 5.64 g.]]
The common currency for [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], created in 1707 by Article 16 of the [[Treaty of Union|Articles of Union]] between England and Scotland, continued in use until [[Decimal Day|decimalisation]] in 1971. During the [[Great Recoinage of 1816]] (following the [[Acts of Union 1800]] that united the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland), the mint was instructed to coin one [[troy pound]] (weighing 5760 grains or 373&nbsp;g) of [[sterling silver]] (0.925 fine) into 66 shillings, or its equivalent in other denominations.{{cn|date=July 2022}} This set the weight of the shilling at 87.2727 grains or 5.655&nbsp;grams from 1816 until 1990, when it was [[Legal tender#Demonetization|demonetised]] in favour of a new smaller [[Five pence (British coin)|5p]] coin of the same value.

At decimalisation in 1971, the shilling coin was superseded by the [[British five pence coin|new five-pence piece]], 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.

Three coins denominated in multiple shillings were also in circulation at this time. They were:
* the [[Two shillings (British coin)|florin]], two shillings (2/–), which adopted the value of 10 new pence (10p) at decimalisation;
* the [[Half crown (British coin)|half-crown]], 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{{sfrac|2}}p);
* the [[Crown (British coin)|crown]] (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).

==={{anchor|Ireland}}Irish shillings===
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Between 1701 and the unification of the currencies in 1825, the [[Kingdom of Ireland|Irish]] 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".<ref>{{cite book |last=Wright |first=Joseph |title=The English Dialect Dictionary |chapter=Hog |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_R8QAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA196 |publisher=Times Book Club |location=London |date=1898 |page=196 |isbn=9785880963072 |oclc=422279387}}</ref>

In the [[Irish Free State]] and [[Republic of Ireland]], the [[Shilling (Irish coin)|shilling coin]] was issued as {{lang|ga|scilling}} (the [[Irish language]] equivalent). It was worth 1/20 of an [[Irish pound]], and was interchangeable at the same value to the British coin, which continued to be used in [[Northern Ireland]]. 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.

===Abbreviation and slang===
[[File:Alice par John Tenniel 38.png|thumb|upright 0.5|The price tag on the [[The Hatter|Hatter's]] hat reads '10/6']]
One abbreviation for shilling is '''s''' (for {{lang|la|[[Solidus (coin)|solidus]]}}, see [[£sd]]). Often it was expressed by a [[solidus (punctuation)|solidus symbol]] ({{char|/}}) (which may have begun as a substitute for {{nobr|{{char|ſ}} ('[[long s]]')}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.englishproject.org/may-and-slash|title=May and the Slash - English Project|website=www.englishproject.org|access-date=27 April 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171022032353/http://www.englishproject.org/may-and-slash|archive-date=22 October 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref>) thus '1/9' means "one shilling and ninepence". A price expressed as a number of shillings with no additional [[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|pence]] 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{{nbsp}}6d' ('d' being the abbreviation for {{lang|la|[[denarius]]}}, a penny). The shilling itself was equal to twelve pence. In the traditional [[£sd|pounds, shillings and pence]] system, there were 20 shillings per pound and 12 pence per shilling, making 240 pence in a pound.

Slang terms for the old shilling coins include "bob" and "hog". While the derivation of "bob" is uncertain, [[John Camden Hotten]] in his 1864 ''Slang Dictionary'' says the original version was "bobstick" and speculates that it may be connected with [[Sir Robert Walpole]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Slang Dictionary|date=1864|author=John Camden Hotten}}</ref>

==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.

==Other countries==
[[File:Skilling 1802, Nordisk familjebok.png|thumb|A Swedish [[Skilling (currency)|Skilling]] from 1802]]
*The [[Austrian schilling]] was the currency of Austria between 1 March 1924<ref>{{cite news|url=https://goldadvert.com/knowledgebase/en/gold-and-silver-shillings-of-austria/|title=Gold and silver shillings of Austria|date=2018-06-14|work=Knowledge base – GoldAdvert|access-date=2018-06-15|language=en-US|archive-date=15 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615163304/https://goldadvert.com/knowledgebase/en/gold-and-silver-shillings-of-austria/|url-status=live}}</ref> and 1938 and again between 1945 and 2002. It was replaced by the [[euro]] at a fixed parity of €1 = 13.7603 schilling. The schilling was divided into 100 [[groschen]].
*In the principalities covering present Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, the cognate term ''schelling'' 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.
*Shillings were issued in the Scandinavian countries ''([[Skilling (Scandinavian monetary unit)|skilling]])'' until the [[Scandinavian Monetary Union]] of 1873, and in the city of [[Hamburg]], Germany.
*In [[Poland]] ''szeląg'' was used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linguee.com/english-polish/translation/shillings.html|title=shillings - Polish translation – Linguee|website=Linguee.com|access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref>
*The ''soll'', later the ''sou'', both also derived from the Roman [[solidus (coin)|solidus]], were the equivalent coins in [[France]], while the [[Peruvian sol|sol]] (PEN) remains the currency of [[Peru]].
*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 (''sol''). This helps explain the name of its temporary replacement, the [[Peruvian inti|inti]], named for the [[Andean civilizations|Incan]] sun god.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Mays, James O. "The Romance of the English Shilling", ''History Today'' (December 1971), Vol. 21 Issue 12, pp 848–855, online. Covers 1504 to 1971.

==External links==
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* [http://www.coinsgb.com British Coins] – information about British coins.
* [https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/curators-corner/shilling/ The History of the Shilling]

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