What is a shilling? | Quizzland Trivia Answers

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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.

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

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.

PineappleSue

Shillings aren't used in Australia! We went decimal in 1966

Castra

madmumma66, No! A shilling was 12 pennies.

__NANDIKA_______________

Against the longest option is the right one

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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 #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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