penny sterling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A British coin worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling, made of silver prior to 1797, and copper thereafter, Abbreviation: d.
noun
A unit of weight amounting to 1/20 of a troy ounce.
Example Sentences
- "The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a penny sterling."
- "Wat imagines he is asked for thirty pennies sterling (two and a half shillings), when he is really being asked for thirty pennies Scots (two and a half pennies sterling)."
- "The Hong Kong Dollar is the local currency unit and has a fixed value of one shilling and three pennies sterling."
- "A price quoted as “10 pennies sterling” meant only that a buyer was expected to render a coin that was considered “worth” 10 pennies sterling. In such a case, payment might indeed be rendered in an actual penny sterling, but the relationship between the price (expressed by the money of account) and the bullion value of the penny was uncertain."
- "There was a variety of silver coins in circulation, of which the most significant was the silver groat, worth four pennies sterling."
- "Twenty four Grains made one Penny Sterling, 20 Penny weight one Ounce, and 12 Ounces, or 5660 Grains made a pound Sterling, consisting of 20 Shillings."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
pennies sterling (plural)
pence sterling (plural)
GBp (alternative)
GBX (alternative)
p (alternative)