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The British sixpence (/ ˈ s ɪ k s p ən s /) piece, sometimes known as a tanner or sixpenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound or half a shilling. It was first minted in 1551, during the reign of Edward VI , and circulated until 1980.
There were several ways to represent amounts of money in writing and speech, with no formal convention; for example: 3 l. 17 s. 10 ½ d. (three pounds, seventeen shillings, and ten-and-a-half pence) [11]: 62 £2/3/6 (two pounds, three shillings and sixpence), spoken, unless there was cause to be punctilious, "two pound(s), three and six".
Sixpence: 6d: £0.025: 1551–1970; circulated from 1971 to 1980 with a value of two and a half decimal pence. Also called "tanner", sometimes "tilbury", [5] or "joey" after the groat was no longer in circulation. [citation needed] Sevenpence: 7d: £0.0292: Late 1640's Minted under Charles I during the civil war briefly. Eightpence: 8d: £0. ...
The Russian ruble was the first decimal currency to be used in Europe, dating to 1704, though China had been using a decimal system for at least 2000 years. [2] Elsewhere, the Coinage Act of 1792 introduced decimal currency to the United States, the first English-speaking country to adopt a decimalised currency.
The British half crown was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 8 of one pound, or two shillings and six pence (abbreviated "2/6", familiarly "two and six"), or 30 pre-decimal pence.
The introduction of decimal currency caused a new casual usage to emerge, where any value in pence is spoken using the suffix pee: e.g. "twenty-three pee" or, in the early years, "two-and-a-half pee" rather than the previous "tuppence-ha'penny". Amounts over a pound are normally spoken thus: "five pounds forty".
On Sixpence None the Richer's self-titled LP, the group shared an airy cover of The La’s 1990 track “There She Goes,” and 2002 saw them drop a stunning take on the 1986 Crowded House classic ...
The sixpence (6d; Irish: réal [1] or reul Irish pronunciation: RALE) coin was a subdivision of the pre-decimal Irish pound, worth 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound or 1 ⁄ 2 of a shilling.The Irish name réal is derived from the Spanish real; for most of the 19th century, a pound sterling was equal to five U.S. dollars, and a dollar was equal to eight reales, so that a real was equal to 1 ⁄ 40 of a pound.