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Brewer's: Scotch Shilling
= a penny sterling. The Scotch pound in 1600 was worth 20d., and as it was divided into twenty shillings, it follows that a Scotch shilling was worth one penny English.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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