A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-sevenshillings for the chair.
1909, United States Bureau of the Mint, “Annual Report of the Director of the Mint”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], page281:
The smaller silver coins of Europe, such as the solidus or Germanshilling, the mark, and others never found their way east in any quantity on account of their small size and value.
(in Kenya):Ksh; (in Somalia)So. Sh.; (in Tanzania)TSh; (in Uganda)UGS
In East Africa, the names of the currencies usually use the proper noun for the country, not its adjectival form: "Kenya shilling", "Tanzania shilling", etc. Amounts are written with a solidus, probably from the UK usage: "2/50" is 2 shillings, 50 cents (not pence); 30 shillings only is written "30/=".
