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countable and uncountable, plural sixpences
(obsolete, Britain, uncountable) The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling. quotations
When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, page 221
(historical) A former British coin worth sixpence, first minted in 1551. quotations
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Talisman, page 55
I remember playing card games with my grandfather. Games of memory, not of skill. If I won, he gave me sixpence; if he won, he didn't. We would play until I was bored, or until he ran out of sixpences.
1994, Neil Gaiman, Mr. Punch