Depending on the time, 60 pence would have been wages for 30 to 60 days work by a common laborer.
What sixty pence meant varied, because there was a gradual decline in the value of silver through most of the Middle Ages. In the Early Middle Ages, a penny was a bit more than a laboring man would earn in a day. Later, a laborer might earn two in a day. In either case, it was a living wage, but just barely.
A penny was a small silver coin weighing about one and a third grams - about the size of a US cent or UK five pence. It was derived from the Roman denarius, which is the reason the abbreviation for pence is d.
A solidus was a small gold coin, and was valued at 12 pence. It is the ancestor of the shilling and the reason the shilling is abbreviated s.
The pound was 240 pence, and obviously derived from the Latin libra.
The larger denominations of medieval currency were rarely minted.
As of June 2016, 20 pence converts to 28 cents.
It cost heaps of money
In England in the 13th Century a bow would cost between 12 pence and 18 pence depending on the quality of the wood. 200 years later prices were limited by law but never cost more than 3s 4d or 40 pence. In 1470 there is a record of 12 of the cheaper bows with 120 arrows for 12s 4d, (148 pence).
A donkey may have been traded instead of brought with money
i would say 350,000,000$ (350 million $). the Los Angeles Lakers cost 607,000,000 $ though
16 trillion 1 pence coins makes £160,000,000,000, or one hundred and sixty billion pounds.
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£37.5 pence
MLB player Hunter Pence made $15200000 in the 2014 season.
As of June 2016, 20 pence converts to 28 cents.
The British Ten Pence coin was not issued until 1968.
3.5 pence exactly !
Think it is a it of money
5 pence
22½ pence
i have no idia
A price of a nickel