Definition of "ninepence"

His wits were sent him for a token, \ But in the carriage crack'd and broken. \ Like commendation nine-pence, crookt \ With—to and from my love—it lookt.read at Wikisource

1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, canto 1

I had sold it to her that morning for ninepence; the real price was a shilling, but it was somewhat shopworn.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 137