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The shilling is an obsolete British coin equivalent to 1/20 of a pound sterling, or 5 pence. Conversion rates changed over the years so the number of shillings equivalent to a U.S. dollar was not constant.

For many years the rate was fixed at £1 = $2.80 so a shilling was equivalent to 14¢. The conversion rate was changed to $2.40 which lowered the shilling to 12¢. Eventually conversion rates were allowed to float and the pound has been anywhere from $1.03 to over $2.00 so it's not possible to give an exact figure.

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