WHAT IS SIXPENCE WORTH?
Silver is so cheap that our silver coinage Is merely token money, its actual silver being much les than the value stamped on the coins. It has just been stated in Parliament that with silver at Is 8d an ounce our eilver sixpences are worth a penny, our •hillings twopence, our florins fourpenoe, Qvr half-crowns flvepence. . Our silver coinage, of course, is not legal Cinder save for small payments. Before the war silver was worth about half-a-crown an ounce'and the silver shiling was worth about sixpence.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 18
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90WHAT IS SIXPENCE WORTH? Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 115, 17 May 1930, Page 18
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