Fivepence

(noun.) a coin worth five cents.

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• But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes's Essay on the Silver Coin, 68. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• 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. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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