Shilling (English coin)

This article is about the coin of the Kingdom of England, used until 1707. For the coin used by Great Britain and the United Kingdom of the same name, see Shilling (British coin).

The English shilling was a silver coin of the Kingdom of England, when first introduced known as the testoon. A shilling was worth twelve pence,[1][2] and there were 20 shillings to the pound sterling.[3] The English shilling was introduced in the 16th century and remained in circulation until it became the British shilling as the result of the Union of England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.[3]

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