The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former English Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from schilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is thought to derive from the base skell-, "to ring/resound" and the diminutive suffix -ing. shilling - Definitions from Dictionary.com The abbreviation for shilling is s, from the Latin solidus, the name of a Roman coi… (More on Shillings)