Coin
Coin noun - Something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment.
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Shilling and coin are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Shilling" with "Coin", this nouns are similar.
Shilling
Shilling noun - An English coin worth one twentieth of a pound.
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Recruits to the Ankh-Morpork City Watch were once given a coin, the King's Shilling, and sworn in on it when they gave their oath of service.
Source: Coin-on-a-String Trick -
The Irish Free State/Irish Republic also used old money from its formation (1922) to 1971, except they used a 10-shilling coin instead of a crown (5/-), and did not have a tuppence coin either.
Source: Useful Notes / Old British Money
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