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‖ schilling1|ˈʃɪlɪŋ|
Also 8 shilling.
[Ger.: see shilling. Cf. schelling, skilling.]
A silver coin and money of account formerly in use in North Germany, of the value of 1/16 mark or 12 pfennigs; (in 1910 slightly over 1d. sterling). Now, an Austrian unit of currency, equivalent to 100 groschen; a coin or note of (multiples of) this value.
In some parts of Germany, where coins of various states circulated freely, the names schilling and groschen were till about 1870 treated as synonymous.
1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. vii. lxxxviii. 407 [Dantzig], 3 Shillings, or 18 phennigen..1 grosch. Ibid. II. i. iii. 17 [Hamburg], They keep their accounts in marks and schillings, sixteen schillings to a mark. 1838Murray's Handbk. N. Germ. 299/2 Warm sea-baths..cost 24 schillings. 1924Times 23 June 11/1 The Austrian new Schilling..which is being issued to the public over the counters of the Austrian National Bank since Monday last [sc. 16 June]. 1932Daily Tel. 8 Oct. 2/3 New bonds will not be issued for a smaller amount than 50 schillings. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (ed. 2) ix. 312 In the countries that suffered the worst inflation, entirely new currencies were introduced (the reichsmark in Germany, the schilling in Austria, the pengö in Hungary, in place of marks and crowns). 1978J. Irving World according to Garp v. 94 ‘It costs five hundred schillings,’ the whore said. |