0 a small, silver-coloured coin, used in the UK until 1971, that was worth six old pennies, or this amount of money -- 六便士
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.
