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    Feb 24, 2011, 03:33 PM
    How do I know if 5 schillings from 1778 is real?
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    Feb 24, 2011, 03:41 PM

    A numismatist studies currency, so, that is who you should be consulting about your schillings which is an british coin currency from, as you stated, from the l800s. If you actually have these coins, I don't think they would have any monetary, possibly instrintsic value only to a collector.

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    Feb 25, 2011, 04:53 AM
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    This is on paper not coins any information would help thank you
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    Feb 25, 2011, 05:23 AM


    Wikipedia:
    The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is thought to derive from the base skell-, "to ring/resound" and the diminutive suffix -ing.[1] The slang term for a shilling as a currency unit was "bob."

    The abbreviation for shilling is s, from the Latin solidus, the name of a Roman coin. Often it was informally represented by a slash, standing for a long s: e.g. "1/6d" would be 1 shilling and sixpence, or 18d. (often pronounced "one and six"); a price with no pence would be written with a slash and a dash, e.g. "11/–". Quite often a triangle or (serif) apostrophe would be used to give a more neat appearance, e.g. "1'6" and "11'-". In Africa it is often abbreviated sh

    A numismastist will be able to tell you if it is worth anything, even if it is 'paper' money. You are spelling it wrong.

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    Feb 25, 2011, 05:27 AM

    Please use the reply feature when answering. Not the 'comment'.

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    Feb 25, 2011, 12:34 PM

    Please clarify something - do you mean that you have five individual shillings, or do you mean that you have a 5-shilling note? Reason I ask is that the 5-shilling piece was known as a "crown," and was not minted between 1751 and 1818. And as far as I can tell both the schilling and crown were always coins, not paper, so I'd be skeptical. But I'm no numismatist. For info on old British currency see:
    Coins of the UK - 5s, Quarter Guinea and 5/6

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