0 a small silver-coloured coin, used in the UK until 1971, that was worth six old pennies, or this amount of money
While the court admitted the value of the wood was 'trifling' it still saw fit to impose a fine of seven shillings and sixpence.
A version in traditional notation was also available for purchase at one shilling and sixpence.
Junior members, admitted in 1907, paid threepence or sixpence, depending on age.
But sixpence a night will buy all natural reluctance out of the way, and the babies must take their chance.
Are more sixpences to be minted to enable a proper trial and review to take place during the conversion period?
It is a fact of common knowledge that four sixpences make a florin, and this is what makes shopping possible, not lightning arithmetical ability.
Seven and sixpence in 1878 would be worth about a fiver now, but people are very much richer.
The cloak-room attendant who collects sixpences free of tax probably makes a gross income far exceeding that of many hard-working professional men.
