The phrase "a shilling a" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing pricing or costs, particularly in historical or literary references to currency.
Example: "In the old market, everything was priced at a shilling a piece."
Alternatives: "a shilling each" or "one shilling per".
She bought sugar, firewood, oranges and 12 jars, and made marmalade jam, which she sold for a shilling a jar.
Carters, plowmen, shepherds, oxherds, cowherds, swineherds, dairymen, and farm labourers were to wear only russet cloth at a shilling a yard and undyed blanket cloth.
What rankled was the measly pay they received from the British government – a shilling a day, worth about four cigarettes on the black market back in camp.
In England, public post chaises were painted yellow and could be hired, along with the driver and two horses, for about a shilling a mile.
Then, in 1906, in collaboration with the essayist and poet Ernest Rhys, he founded the Everyman's library, which made the world's greatest writing available to poor readers for a shilling a volume.
The scheme has been running since 1926 when one Miss Elsie Wagg thought it would be a good idea to ask people to open up their gardens to visitors for a shilling a head.
Africa Co. to buy ten thousand acres of land for a shilling an acre & returned home to England, in time for the FirstWorld War.
Almost 45 years after Tony Elliott launched Time Out, charging a shilling an issue, the grandaddy of listings magazines is set to be reborn as a free title in London with hundreds of thousands copies handed out each week.
Viewers of Fox News were given the gift of learning about Trumpy Bear on Monday morning in a campy advertisement shilling a stuffed teddy bear resembling President Donald Trump.
He found that workers were reluctant to exchange the comforts of home and wartime salaries for the uncertainties of the trenches and a wage of one shilling a day.
Local post offices were a public service too: in the early days, if you paid a shilling the postmistress would write a letter for you and explain how to deal with social security forms.
