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The East African Currency Board (EACB) was established in 1919 to supply and oversee the currency of British colonies in British East Africa. It was established after Britain took control of mainland Tanzania from Germany at the end of World War I, and originally oversaw the territories of Uganda , Kenya , and Tanzania (excluding Zanzibar ).
A 1933 UK shilling 1956 Elizabeth II UK shilling showing English and Scottish reverses. The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s ...
The East African shilling was the sterling unit of account in British-controlled areas of East Africa from 1921 until 1969. [2] It was issued by the East African Currency Board . It is also the proposed name for a common currency that the East African Community plans to introduce.
The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 20 of one pound, or twelve pence. It was first minted in the reign of Henry VII as the testoon, and became known as the shilling, from the Old English scilling, [1] sometime in the mid-16th century. It circulated until 1990.
The Florin was the currency of the British colonies and protectorates of East Africa between 1920 and 1921. It was divided into 100 cents. It replaced the East African rupee at par, and was replaced in turn by the East African shilling at a rate of 2 shillings = 1 florin. The florin was equivalent to 2 shillings sterling.
Two shilling coin from 1949 1 ⁄ 10 d coins of British West Africa, dated 1936 and 1939.. In 1907, aluminium 1 ⁄ 10 d and cupro-nickel 1d coins were introduced. Both coins were holed.
Shilling (British coin), circulating until 1990; Shilling (English coin), a silver coin of the Kingdom of England from king Henry VII with the forerunner, the testoon; Shilling (Irish coin), circulating until 1993; Shilling (Australian), a coin minted 1910–1963; Shilling (New Zealand coin) East African shilling; Kenyan shilling; Somali shilling