schelling
A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries.
Noun
- A silver coin formerly current in the Low Countries.
- Pallet, provoked at his intrusion, cursed him aloud for an impudent beggarly son of a whore; and taking out a schelling, flung it upon the pavement, with manifest signs of indignation. - 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The...
Origin
From Dutch schelling.