Definition

• A popular name for the Shilling in both Scotland and Ireland, the allusion being to its white shiny appear- ance.

  Thomas Donaldson, in his Poems. Chicfly in the Scottish Dialect, 1809 (p. 99), has the line : " I will give a white shilling. I swear." and Seumas MacManus, in The Bend of the Road , 1898 (201), says: " He hadn't a white shillin ' in his company."

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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