Green’s Dictionary of Slang

rogue (and villain) n.

a shilling.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1883		N. Devon Jrnl 8 Feb. 7/2: [from The Echo] Come, cows and kisses, put the battle of the Nile on your Barnet Fair, and a rogue and villain in your sky-rocket.
1891		Exeter & Plymouth Gaz. 15 Oct. 6/4: The row [...] was all about the shilling. ‘and me over the “rogue and villain”’ (that is — shilling).
1935		C. Drew ‘The Bone-Head’ in Bulletin 6 May 31/2: ‘A fiver is a hundred rogues’.