Meanings of english shilling in English

A sol is like our halfpenny, value one penny french, or a halfpenny english , twenty-four of these make an english shilling.

You may buy one here for twenty or thirty English shillings.

She had dropped her English shilling into the plate instead of the quarter!

They may have been paid two English shillings for it.

How much is an English shilling in our money?

They were now worth, on an average, twelve English shillings, or about three dollars a-piece.

She had asked of Captain Sang, she said, and the fare was but an English shilling.

It was about the size of an English shilling, but oval-anoval disk, if not a coin.

"Here are three English shillings," she said, tilting them into her hand.

Through the air, twirling and glittering, tumbles an English shilling, and drops into the deep water beyond the little fleet.

"Ay, that is a thirteen, plase your honour; all as one as an English shilling."

He regrets the departure of the British Fleet, because he thinks he might have been able to raise a real English shilling aboard.

The vast fluctuation in the value of the English shilling, due to the successive debasements and final restitution of the coinage, is thus expressed:

By the sound it had made Trenholme found it, and saw by the light of the passing car that it was an English shilling.

There was the ducatoon, better known as the ducat, which had a horse and rider stamped upon it and was worth six English shillings.

Spanish silver has always formed our smaller currency, such a thing as an English shilling, or a sixpence, being quite a stranger among us.