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shilling
- Explanation: Cupronickel coin of the U.K., the 20th part of a pound equal to 12 pence use phased out in 1971. The Monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. A former fractional currency of various other nations and territories such as Aden, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria New Zealand, Rhodesia, the Federation of Southern Arabia, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar
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