What is a shilling?
Correct answer: A coin used in Great Britian and the British Commonwealth
(!)Pearl(!)
Joanne McKinnon, The keyword used in the first sentence is "formerly". As in the past....
madmumma66
Player #126238, a shilling was 5 pennies, it is no longer used in UK and many British Commonwealth countries but is still currency in some African countries,
shilling aren't in use anymore in the UK
JackTheGreatJack
Joanne McKinnon, the shilling is no longer used in GB
Player #41472437
madmumma66, A shilling was 12 pennies or 5 new pence
Adrian M
not in current use.
SOOTI
lizzy uk, Strange, but when I was in school there was 240 pennies in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling, 20 shillings in a pound.
PineappleSue
Shillings aren't used in Australia! We went decimal in 1966
Uninitialized
Player #10483191, wrong there, I'm afraid. There were 20 shillings in a pound. There were notes for half of a pound - a ten Bob note (10 shillings)and coins for 1/8th of a pound - the half crown, or 2/6. Florins were two shillings - ten in a pound.
Frugal Fred
easy when they show you one with both sides. Doh!
f
shilling was never used in HK and H K was part of the commonwealth. Don't continue to misled users
Rasheeqah😆😍❤🛍💄👛
This game is very good for kids but i call them they say wait wait wait!!!
chunk
I still have some of them worthless coins
Eddie
madmumma66, shillings were 12 pennies prior to metric in New Zealand. When we switched to metric they based the 10 cent piece off it. Curiously, they set the NZ dollar as equivalent to half a pound sterling so the 5 pennies thing sounds right to me.
Justin
Steve, also Somalia, as well as the de facto country of Somaliland
Rochella
(!)Pearl(!), bolbol
Hạnh Phúc
I just dont know anything, so I choose the longest word:))))
Eunice
Here in Uganda, we also use shillings
Dimpu and timmu
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Lorraine
madmumma66, a shilling was 12 pennies. we also called a shilling a 'bob' it was English slang for shilling
Hans
Player #25874027, and 10 other terms!
Hans
Substandard question and answers. Like many others mention it's no longer valid, and furthermore the Skilling was also a coin in Denmark in the past so rather ambiguous.
Steve
currently used in kenya Uganda and Tanzania
Taimis@Luka❤
🥰😍❤,sadly, dollar's is suddenly higher value than pounds or shillings 😔😥
Midari
The crown took it
hogweed
no longer used in uk
Uninitialized
It was easy
AISHA
shillings are mostly used in African countries
countries which have been colonised by the British
Sha
Malaysia currency for coin called sen (cents) while the paper one as Ringgit Malaysia (RM). Even though the currency is cents but we call the coin as syiling, adopted word of shilling.
Aukyboy
First country that comes to mind for using shillings (flexible spelling because it's an English quiz): Austria. Not exactly commonwealth. I can't be bothered looking up if Kenya and Tanzania were British colonies.
Peter
not used in Canada
Player #25874027
Player #32567393,
Decimal not metric. Metric refers to length only
Player #25874027
madmumma66,
A shilling was 12 pennies . The pound was 20 shillings , or 240 pennies .
When the UK converted to a decimal currency in 1971 the shilling was dropped and the currency then became 100 New Pennies to the pound .
Five New Pennies (np) became equivalent to one shilling
Player #32567393
Cozzy 25,
I remember the shilling. It went metric in Australia. 😎
LleidaLiz
Also known as a Bob.
JamesWatson
Bad spelling of Britain
jason.d
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Lipjan37
Isn't this a question already done , like few others