What is "sevenpence"

Usage examples of "sevenpence".

I spent sevenpence on dropping pennies into silly automatic machines and peepshows of rowdy girls having a jolly time.

London, and only sevenpence in her pocket, and as how she wanted to find work.

He had a silk handkerchief and sevenpence halfpenny in his pockets--his available assets consisted of a handsome gold watch and chain--his only article of baggage was a blackthorn stick--and his anchor of hope was the Pawnbroker.

And again, there is the desire to compress a telegraphic message into the minimum sixpennyworth, and so send an ambiguous and cryptic sentence, when sevenpence would have made it as clear as light.

Or get off two stops away and walk the rest, which meant sevenpence over, and that was a comic under his pillow at bedtime?