- East
African shilling. The word
shilling comes from Anglo-Saxon
phrase "
Scilling", a
monetary term
meaning literally "twentieth of a pound", from the Proto-Germanic...
- as the testoon, and
became known as the shilling, from the Old
English scilling,
sometime in the mid-16th century. It
circulated until 1990. It was commonly...
- þurhstingð,
stice ghwilve vi scillingas. Gife ofer ynce,
scilling. æt twam yn****, twegen. ofer þry, iii
scill.
Translation (taken from
Attenborough 1922, p. 13):...
- The
shilling (1s) (Irish:
scilling) coin was a
subdivision of the pre-decimal
Irish pound,
worth 1⁄20 of a pound.
Worth 12d or half of a Florin. The original...
- Mac
Scelling (fl. 1154 – 1173/1174), also
known as Mac
Scilling, was a
prominent twelfth-century
military commander engaged in
conflicts throughout Ireland...
- sterling, the £sd
system was used, with the
Irish names punt (plural: puint),
scilling (plural: scillingí) and
pingin (plural: pinginí).
Distinctive coins and...
-
English coinage was
restricted for
centuries to the penny,
while the
scilling,
understood to be the
value of a cow in Kent or a
sheep elsewhere, was...
- The ten
shilling (10s) (Irish:
deich scilling) coin was a one-off
commemorative coin
issued in
Ireland in 1966 to mark the 50th
anniversary of the Easter...
- in
contrast to stamps,
which instead bore Irish-language
abbreviations (
scilling ("shilling",
abbreviated "s") and
pingin ("penny",
abbreviated "p")). After...
- the
scilling and the sceatt. In Æthelberht's day a
sceatt was a unit of gold with the
weight of a
grain of barley, with 20
sceattas per
scilling. One...
