Also, Austria used the Schilling, which was replaced by the Euro in 2002 (and which actually is one of the main inspirations for the currency, value and all, though the Austrian Schilling was divided into Groschen), and the Peruvian sol actually comes from solidus (which is what shillings are derived from). It's not uncommon for coins that are "subunits" of one currency to sometimes be currency units outright: see, for example, florins (presently, the Aruban florin and Hungarian forint); dinars and dirhams (eg. the UAE dirham, but the Libyan dinar is divided into dirhams; the Iranian rial is also formally divided into dinars, and a number of countries use dinars as their main units)... there are, however, some currency units that are almost always solely subdivisions of a main unit (para, groschen, kopecks, heller, pennies/pfennig, paise...), but there's a number as well that can be ambivalent.salem wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 5:30 pm Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia all use shillings as their main currency like this in real life, and all legally divided into cents (though inflation has made it so cents are no longer used in practice). Uganda did the same until 2013, when it legally abolished cents.
Schillings also date back to old, old, old times (Charlemagne, actually!).
I was thinking some people would actually see some of the reference (value-wise) to the old French francs and Austrian Schilling, actually: the latter traded at ATS 13.76 per euro upon its discontinuation, and the denomination structure (save for the 25 cents and 2.50 Shilling) is quite similar to the French franc. Maybe a bit too obscure anymore, though. (Or maybe I'm just old. Maybe both. :P)