Fivepence
[faifpәns]
Examples
- But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes's Essay on the Silver Coin, 68. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In the last century, the most usual day-wages of common labour through the greater part of Scotland were sixpence in summer, and fivepence in winter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Ludwig