 Early shillings of James I feature the alternative reverse inscription , meaning ""Let God arise and His enemies be scattered"", becoming , meaning ""What God hath put together let no man put asunder"" after 1604.A slang name for a shilling was a "bob" (plural as singular, as in "that cost me two bob").The first recorded use was in a case of coining heard at the Old Bailey in 1789, when it was described as cant, "well understood among a certain set of people", but heard only among criminals and their associates.