sixpence

20 shillings in the pound so 12 and sixpence is 5/8 of a pound

English: Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

In the ToS, add a charge of 2 guineas, 5 shilling, a sixpence and a peppercorn per request.

My mom has stories of jumping under the stalls if they didn't have the shilling, sixpence or whatever it was in the 60's.

He actually said, "The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

Which is not the same as saying pedestrians have free reign to leap into the path of oncoming vehicles, anywhere they like, expecting traffic to stop on a sixpence.

Income, twenty shillings a week, expenditure, nineteen shillings and sixpence; result, happiness.

For example if I'm reading "sing a song of sixpence" my brain will say "ah yes, I remember this one, the king and the maid are having an affair, and the queen learns about it and has her killed".

Mr. Micawber, one of those happy creations of the genial Dickens, puts the case in a strong light when he says that to have annual income of twenty pounds per annum, and spend twenty pounds and sixpence, is to be the most miserable of men; whereas, to have an income of only twenty pounds, and spend but nineteen pounds and sixpence is to be the happiest of mortals.

We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.