Definition of "ninepence" []

• A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies. (noun)
• Nine old pennies. (noun)
• A Spanish real, valued at twelve and a half cents. (noun)

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• "They have now been reduced to ninepence a word to Australia or eighteen cents."
• ""Shilling shockers" are sold at ninepence, which is as comical as selling "tenpenny nails" at sixpence."
• "In one of the most curious and amusing of these pieces Lewis and his ministers are introduced, expressing the greatest alarm lest England should make herself the richest country in the world by the simple expedient of calling ninepence a shilling, and confidently predicting that, if the old standard were maintained, there would be another revolution."