sixpenny in English
adjective
1
costing or worth six pence, especially before decimalization (1971).
Woolworth's was a threepenny and sixpenny store then.
adjective
two-a-pennytwopenny-halfpennythreepennytwopenny
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1. Although issued as sixpenny pieces, the Bawbees of base silver were ‘cried doun' to threepenny pieces by an Act of James VI
2. First rate mouth organs for sixpenny were sold in Australia as early as 1904 by Allan & Co under the Australian slang terms for first-rate, Boshter and Bonzer