shilling mark

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#1·4h ago

(UK, typography, historical) ⟨/⟩ in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or (obsolete) in all its uses.

Origin: A development of the long s ⟨ſ⟩, an abbreviation of , used to mark the amount of shillings in a sum. Formerly also the slash in all its uses, but this extended sense was taken on by the term solidus. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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