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What is a ninepence?

What is a ninepence? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete, Britain) A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies.
  2. (obsolete, Britain) Nine old pennies.
  3. (obsolete, New England) A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents.
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What do we want of two horses down here, at two and ninepence a day?
Was in the army long enough to get a pension of ninepence a day.
If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guineas, it would be so encouraging.
I hate to borrow as much as Mother does, and I knew Aunt March would croak, she always does, if you ask for a ninepence.
As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments.
Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare.

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