Three Pounds and Five Shillings GBP in 1886 had the purchasing power of about £235.88 GBP today.
NOTE - This historical conversion is the result of many calculations and considerations for which I cannot take credit. The resulting answer should only be regarded as an approximation.
Around 1880 the purchasing power of one shilling was very roughly comparable to four pounds now.
Pounds sterling (£) as now for all of the United Kingdom. Before decimalization (1971) pounds were divided into 20 shillings, and each shilling was 12 pence (pennies).
4 pounds 5 shillings = 4.25 pounds. This is equivalent to 10,500 pounds approximately in 2012 prices, in terms of inflation in the Consumer Price Index.
$1883.76 American Dollars
The Shilling was a sub-unit of currency of 12 Pence that was used in Britain and the currencies of any country using a currency based on the British Imperial currency system of Pounds, Shillings and Pence. 12 Pence to the Shilling and 20 Shillings to the Pound. All of these currencies are now obsolete and have long since been withdrawn. The Shilling is currently used as the major unit of currency by Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. 100 cents or senti to the Shilling.
Assuming you mean a British shilling, about 10 cents or so. 1948 shillings have no silver and are very common.
The Sovereign, Shilling, Pound, Penny and the Farthing were all a part of the now redundant British Imperial currency.
The Tanzanian shilling is now so devalued by inflation that it would be difficult to find a one-shilling coin these days. But back in the day when a shilling had some buying power, they had an arm holding a torch on one side and a picture of the President ("Rais") on the other. Neither of these are Masonic.
The shilling is the currency of Uganda. Officially divided into cents until 2013, due to substantial inflation the shilling now has no subdivision.
Formerly a shilling, now 5 pence.
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Up until about 1970 the UK had a shilling, worth about 12 cents. The shilling was a 20th of a pound, now replaced by 5 pence. Austria used to have a unit of currency named the schilling, but that has been replaced by the euro.