SIXPENCE

Sixpence

The sixpence, known colloquially as the tanner, or half-shilling, was a British pre-decimal coin, worth six pence or 1/40th of a pound sterling.

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sixpence

Noun

  1. A former coin worth six old pence; a tanner.
    Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?
  2. The value of six old pence.
    Finest apples, sixpence each.


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