1920 Silver Shilling For a Special 89th Birthday

1920 SilverSilver Shilling

Coin may vary slightly from that pictured

This Special  89th Birthday Shilling will come to you cleaned and polished and ready to attach to your own choice of birthday card, or simply to give as an unusual gift for someone rather special. The coin will also make an interesting topic of conversation when meeting with friends. Most certainly it will bring back pleasurable memories of bygone times.

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Brief History of the Shilling

The shilling was demonetized in 1971 when it was replaced by the 5p coin and the last shilling minted for circulation was 1966.

With a value of 12 pence it was first issued in 1502 during the reign of Henry the Seventh. Today you would need four or five thousand pounds to buy one of these early coins.

The shilling was originally known as a testoon and only became known as a shilling during the reign of Edward the Sixth.

It was during the reign of Charles the Second that milled shillings first appeared in vast quantities. They were 6.0 grams in weight, but from 1816 onwards this was reduced to 5.7 grams.

In 1920 the silver content of the shilling was reduced from 92.5% to 50% and from 1947 onwards it was entirely cupronickel.

From George the Sixth onwards both Scottish and English shillings were minted.