shilling mark

American  

noun

1. a virgule, as used as a divider between shillings and pence.

   One reads 2/6 as “two shillings and sixpence” or “two and six.”

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shilling mark British  

noun

1. another name for slash

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Etymology

Origin of shilling mark

so named because it was used to separate shillings from pence when writing amounts less than one pound before the introduction of decimal currency in Britain. For example, three shillings and eleven pence was written 3/11