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Nippence

An English dialect term for Ninepence. Sarah Hewett, in The Peasant Speech of Devon , 1892, has, "Eggs be awnly nippence a dizen tu-day in tha market."


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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