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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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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.
After all her painful traffic, the whole proceeds were perhaps half a dozen coppers, and a questionable ninepence which ultimately proved to be copper likewise.
Rather a poor one, I should say, since you had to borrow a ninepence.
I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart.
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.
Ninepence was the sum he had to take home every night, and there was not a halfpenny to spare.

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