Example sentences for: fourpenny

How can you use “fourpenny” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The name of the small silver threepenny coin, known as the threepenny joey or just joey, had the origin in another small coin, a fourpenny piece or groat.

  • But in 1845 a silver threepence had been reintroduced and after the disappearance of the fourpenny joey , the nickname was transferred to the threepenny joey .

  • When the fourpenny groat was introduced passengers handed that over and the cabbies were down twopence on each journey, so they nicknamed it Joey and frequently spat on it in disgust before pocketing it whenever one was given to them in payment.


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