Can anyone tell me how many sixpences there where in a pound ect?

Answer 1

There were forty sixpences,- also known as 'tanners, to the old English pound.
Pre-decimalisation of the British coinage there was ;-
960 farthings = £1.00
480 halfpennies = £1.00
240 pence = £1.00
40 tanners ( 6 x pence) = £1.00
20 shillings (12 x pence) = £1.00
10 florins (10 pence) = £ 1.00 @ known as' two bob '
8 half crowns ( 12 1/2 pence) = £1.00
4 crowns ( 60 pence) = £1.00 @ known as 'five bob'

etc. etc. Good luck with whatever you are studying !

Answer 2

12 pence in a shilling; 20 shillings in a pound.

So 12 x 20 pence in a pound - 240 in total

Divide 240 by 6 and you discover than there were 40 sixpences in a pound.

(Did you know that there were eight half-crowns in a pound?)

Answer 3

12 pence in a shilling
2 sixpences in a shilling
5 sixpences in half a crown (2 shillings and 6 pence)
20 shillings in a pound
10 shillings in a ten-bob note
3 pennies in a threepenny bit
4 threepences in a shilling
1 sixpence was called a tanner.
Arithmetic was challenging when I went to school.

Answer 4

There were 20 shillings to a pound, twelve pennies equalled one shilling.
Two sixpences made a shilling so there were forty of them to the pound.

Answer 5

40 as they were sixpence, half a shilling and 20 shillings to the pound

Answer 6

40

Answer 7

there were twenty shillings to the pound and twelve pence to the shilling, therfore forty sixpences to the pound

Answer 8

20 shillings
40 sixpences
80 threepenny bits
240 pennies
480 ha'pennies
960 farthings...
and I remember when you could buy a halfpint of beer for sixpence (2.5P)

Answer 9

Everyone else is right - 40.

You can convert it into today's money too as 6d is the equivalent of 2.5p. I quite liked sixpennies ... to be honest, they felt like more than two & a half pence.

Answer 10

40 sixpenny pieces i`v still got some