sixer
9.9
An old British coin worth six pence used before the change to decimal money
- noun
- /ˈsɪkə/
- Archaic
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moneda de seis peniques
- Before decimalization, a sixer was a common coin in everyday transactions.
Examples
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He found an old sixer in his grandfather's coin collection.
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Collectors often search for rare sixer coins from the Victorian era.
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I found an old sixer in my grandfather's coin collection.
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Did you ever see a sixer before decimalization?
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He found an old sixer in his grandfather's coin collection.
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Collectors often search for rare sixer coins from the Victorian era.
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Before decimalization, a sixer was a common coin in everyday transactions.
Synonyms
6
9.9
An old British coin worth six pence used before 1971
is the general name for the pre-decimal coin without an exact end date
1
9.9
A British coin worth sixpence not used after 1970
is the general name for the pre-decimal coin without an exact end date
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sixer for the old coin comes from six and -er, meaning a coin worth 'six' pence, so people used sixer to mean the sixpence before decimal money.