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Example sentences for: fourpenny

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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.
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 .
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.