Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The sixpence appears in the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence" published in London in 1744. [33] Half a Sixpence is the title of the 1963 West End stage musical, and the subsequent 1967 musical film version, of H. G. Wells's novel Kipps. "I've Got Sixpence" is a song dating from at least 1810.
An old value of 7 pounds, 10 shillings, and sixpence, abbreviated £7-10-6 or £7:10s:6d, became £7.52 1 / 2 p. Amounts with a number of old pence which was not 0 or 6 did not convert into a round number of new pence.
The weight of the English penny was fixed at 22 + 1 ⁄ 2 troy grains (about 1.46 grams) by Offa of Mercia, an 8th-century contemporary of Charlemagne; 240 pennies weighed 5,400 grains or a tower pound (different from the troy pound of 5,760 grains). The silver penny was the only coin minted for 500 years, from c. 780 to 1280.
Each of the reverses for the sixpence and above carried the date of minting, but none carried a statement of the coin's monetary value. [22] The sixpence had borne a wreath surrounding a statement of its value since 1831, [23] with one reason for this being that it was the same size as the half sovereign, and was sometimes fraudulently plated ...
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.
The half crown (2s 6d) (Irish: leath choróin) coin was a subdivision of the pre-decimal Irish pound, worth 1 ⁄ 8 of a pound. The half crown was commonly called "two and six" due to its value of two shillings and sixpence (indicated on the coin itself as '2s 6d').
A bawbee was a Scottish sixpence. The word means a debased copper coin, valued at six pence Scots (equal at the time to an English half-penny), issued from the reign of James V of Scotland to the reign of William II of Scotland. They were hammered until 1677, when they were produced upon screw presses.
The British three halfpence coin was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 / 160 of one pound or 1 / 8 of one shilling. It was produced for circulation in the British colonies, mainly in Ceylon and the West Indies in each year between 1834 and 1843, and also in 1860 and 1862. Proof coins were also produced in 1870.