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Prices in the Kenyan shilling are written in the form of x/y, where x is the amount in shillings, while y is the amount in cents. An equals sign or hyphen represents zero amount. For example, 50 cents is written as "-/50" and 100 shillings as "100/=" or "100/-". Sometimes the abbreviation KSh is prefixed for distinction. If the amount is ...
Unlike elsewhere in the possessions of the British Empire that used the sterling, in British East Africa the shilling instead of the pound was the primary unit of account, with the pound being a superunit mainly used for recording government and business transactions whose totals would be needlessly large if quoted solely in shillings.
Many post-colonial governments have retained the name and notional value unit system of their prior colonial era currency. For example, the British West African pound was replaced by the Nigerian pound, which was divided into shillings, before being replaced by the naira.
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 pound was replaced in 1992 by the dinar (SDD) at a rate of SD 1 = LS 10. While the dinar circulated in northern Sudan, in Southern Sudan, prices were still negotiated in pounds; this ended with the establishment of the South Sudanese pound in 2011. [4] In Rumbek and Yei, the Kenyan shilling was more widely accepted as payment.
Saint Helena pound; São Tomé and Príncipe dobra; Seychellois rupee; Sierra Leonean dollar; Sierra Leonean leone; Somali shilling; Somaliland shilling; South African rand; South Sudanese pound; Southern Rhodesian pound; Sudanese pound; Swazi lilangeni
Tanzanian shilling: Bank of Tanzania Tunisia: Tunisian dinar: Central Bank of Tunisia Uganda: Ugandan shilling: Bank of Uganda Zambia: Zambian kwacha: Bank of Zambia Zimbabwe: Various (including South African rand, Botswana pula, pound sterling, Indian rupee, euro, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, United States dollar and the Chinese yuan)
S. Sahrawi peseta; Saint Helena pound; Samoan tālā; São Tomé and Príncipe dobra; Saudi riyal; Serbian dinar; Seychellois rupee; Sierra Leonean leone; Singapore dollar