0 a small silver-coloured coin, used in the UK until 1971, that was worth six old pennies, or this amount of money --
To raise £75 requires the clearing of 3,000 sixpences.
This means that 12,000 sixpences have to be played through the machine for 3,000 sixpences, or £75, to be cleared to pay the duty.
There is no use splitting small sums like this, and while we are about it we might as well make it sixpence for all certificates.
The board's report contains a full assessment of the likelihood of the sixpence continuing to circulate freely within the decimal currency system.
A commanding officer with nineteen years' service is sixpence a day worse off.
Is he aware that herring, which once one could buy at six for sixpence—that is in old money—is now a luxury fish?
She ekes out her housekeeping by threepences and sixpences.
The cloak-room attendant who collects sixpences free of tax probably makes a gross income far exceeding that of many hard-working professional men.
