As well as being the name of a coin, the Schilling was an historical unit in three areas of measurement: numbers, volume and weight.
It can be regarded as a European measure, because it was used in Bohemia, Bavaria, Silesia, Austria and Lusatia.
In Bohemian mines it was a measure of volume that corresponded to 5 wheelbarrows.
The schilling was determined as follows: In Regensburg the measure was applied to salt.
A schilling was determined to be twelve pfennigs, but was initially not an actual coin.