Shilling

The shilling or schilling is a monetary unit used in various countries.

The word shilling comes from old English chelin of the 16th century. The chelin term was also employed as old Canadian French.

This page returns to the following homonymous monetary units:

Current monetary units

• the Kenya: Kenyan Shilling (KES)
• the Tanzania: Tanzanian Shilling (HEAP)
• the Uganda: Ugandan Shilling
• the Somalia: Shilling somali

Obsolete monetary units

• the British shilling:

Since February 15th 1971, the the United Kingdom adopted the decimal system and uses the Pound sterling (abbreviations: GBP and £), divided into hundred pence. Before 1971, it was divided into 20 shillings, each shilling itself being divided into 12 pence. The Guinea was worth 1 delivers and 1 shilling (or 21 shillings).

• the schilling was also the national currency of the Austria before the introduction of the Euro: 1 Euro = 13,7603 Schillings.

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