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Definition of Pence
1. n.
Definition of Pence
1. Noun. (British) (plural of penny) (the sub-unit of the pound sterling). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pence
1. penny [n] - See also: penny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pence
Literary usage of Pence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Surrey Parish Register Society (1908)
"Sep1 25th 1715 Collected for Warwick & Preston Baggot one shilling and seven
pence, loss 1162". Oct. 2d, 1715 Collected for ..."
2. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"copper pence, silver pence, and gold pence, were made, because every silver penny
was worth ten copper pence, and every gold penny worth ten silver pence, ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1838)
"... within 60 English Miles thereof, and thence back to New-York, do pay Four pence
... Eight pence for every double Letter, One Shilling for every treble ..."
4. The Ancient Laws of Cambria: Containing the Institutional Triads of Dyvnwal by Wales, William Probert (1823)
"Whoever possesses a dunghill dog, its value is four pence. ... The young unfledged
hawks are worth one hundred and twenty pence; and after they are fledged ..."
5. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"Upon all brandies of foreign manufacture, three pence. Upon all other spirituous
liquors of foreign manufacture, two pence. Upon all spirituous liquors ..."
6. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the by Phillip Alexander Bruce (1895)
"In England, the price of eggs fell from four shillings in 1600 to two shillings
six and a half pence in 1645, one hundred or eight dozen being taken as the ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1852)
"If a single article in England is, in price, two-pence, two will be ... Again:
if the price of a single article be three-pence, it is a third of the ..."
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