#shillings

This is my magnum opus.

On February 15th 1971 decimal currency introduced, abandoning 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.

Of course the way things are going down south the Brexiteers will soon have us going back to these........

20 shillings = 1 pound. Pence (d) – 12 pence = 1 shilling. 240 pence = 1 pound.

Printed by Ben Franklin June 1, 1759

Delaware Twenty Shillings Colonial Currency

English or colonial money will see the symbol £ for pounds, and the abbreviation s for shillings and d for pence. All derive from the Latin: £ resembling an L for libra, a Roman unit of weight; and the d and the s for denarius and solidus, Roman coins. Sometimes a specific amount was written with those abbreviations, and sometimes a period was used to delineate each  unit of currency: for example, £27 19s 6d or £27.19.06.