What does mill-sixpence mean?

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mill-sixpence

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.67 in modern English

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"seven groats in mill-sixpences"
"a mill sixpence of my mother's I loved as dearly, and a two-pence I had to spend over and above[…]"

mill-sixpences (plural)

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