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Examples of sixpence
sixpence
Remember when you nan used to tell you that fish and chips cost a shiny sixpence?
From the independent.co.uk
Erika Tinker was the 80th bride to tape the same Scottish sixpence into her shoe.
From the online.wsj.com
Annual income one pound, annual expenditure one pound and sixpence, result misery.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
He had worked at the Eumundi Sawmill from when he was 15, earning sixpence an hour.
From the dailymercury.com.au
Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
From the guardian.co.uk
The green and gold money box was first issued in 1922 and sold for sixpence.
From the smh.com.au
He spins on the proverbial sixpence and drags a shot inches wide of the left upright.
From the guardian.co.uk
It all mounted up and before I knew it I owed three shillings and sixpence.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Flanagan lauds an ability to turn on a sixpence, wrong-footing opponents.
From the canberratimes.com.au
- A small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970
- The Australian Sixpence was a coin used in the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalization. It was minted from 1910 until 1963, excluding 1913, 1915, 1929 - 1933 inclusive, 1937, 1947 and 1949. ...
- The sixpence, known colloquially as the tanner, or half-shilling, was a British pre-decimal coin, worth six (pre-1971) pence, or 1/40th of a pound sterling.
- A former coin worth six old pence; a tanner; The value of six old pence
- English half-shilling, first struck in the reign of Edward VI in 1551. After introduction of the decimal system in England, the sixpence was abolished.
- Pre-decimal currency. A coin worth six pennies equivalent to 2.5p today.
- A coin equal to six pence under the old imperial system of pounds, shillings and pence.
- A British coin that is no longer in use. It represented six British pennies and its equivalent in the 2000s would be about a nickel.
