shilling
Pre-decimal British coin
A shilling was a British coin worth one-twentieth of a pound, or twelve pence.
Britain decimalized its currency in 1971, retiring the shilling.
The word survives in East African currencies and in the phrase take the King's shilling, meaning to enlist in the military.
As a verb, shilling means covertly promoting something while pretending to be an impartial observer: He was shilling for the crypto exchange on social media.
Stamped metal currency
- silverLustrous white precious metal
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- circulationMovement through a system
- obverseFront of coin
reverse · mintage · engraving · effigy · inscription · collectible · hoard · mintmark
Currency before metrication
- pound sterlingBritain's official money
- bobShort vertical movement
- tannerHide-to-leather craftsperson
- threepenceFormer British three-penny coin
half-crown · crown · florin · guinea · farthing · penny · 1971 · old money
Historical English fourpenny piece
- sovereignSupreme in power
- ducatFormer European gold coin
- florinHistoric European coin
- drachmaFormer Greek monetary unit
denarius · doubloon · thaler · escudo · crown · medieval · Tudor · colonial
East African country, capital Nairobi
- TanzaniaDodoma-capital nation
- UgandaEast African republic
- SomaliaHorn of Africa nation
- centHundredth of a dollar
bob · East African · banknote · denomination · devaluation · inflation · exchange rate · mobile money
coin
Stamped metal currency
- silverLustrous white precious metal
- mintAromatic culinary herb
- circulationMovement through a system
obverse · reverse · mintage · engraving · effigy · inscription · collectible · hoard · mintmark · alloy
pre-decimal
Currency before metrication
- pound sterlingBritain's official money
- bobShort vertical movement
- tannerHide-to-leather craftsperson
threepence · half-crown · crown · florin · guinea · farthing · penny · 1971 · old money · British Empire
groat
Historical English fourpenny piece
drachma · denarius · doubloon · thaler · escudo · crown · medieval · Tudor · colonial · sterling
Kenya
East African country, capital Nairobi
cent · bob · East African · banknote · denomination · devaluation · inflation · exchange rate · mobile money · legal tender
- medieval coinsdenier, florin, groat, ducat, penny
- silver coinssilver coin, silver dollar, silver eagle, Washington quarter, half dollar
- TanzaniaSerengeti, Zanzibar, Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika, ujamaa
- Anglo-Saxon coinspenny, silver penny, halfpenny, farthing, hammered coins
- colonial moneypaper money, paper currency, Spanish dollar, piece of eight, pieces of eight
- currencydollar, euro, pound, yen, peso