Sixpence

[Viktoria]

Yes and there would be many more!
Shopkeepers, not necessarily being dishonest ,but did the simplest conversions eg ,knitting patterns were about 9d  so they became 9p !
Quite a mark up.
              £1.00 made up of 240 pennies divided by 9 = is roughly one twenty sixth .
             £1.00 made up of  100 pence  divided by 9 = roughly one eleventh .
A big difference.
The resemblance to a shilling the ten pence coin bore and the five pence to an old sixpence were deliberate I feel sure .
We wuz dun!
Viktoria.

[Maiden Stone]

The resemblance to a shilling the ten pence coin bore and the five pence to an old sixpence were deliberate I feel sure .

The original 5 New Pence piece was the same size as a shilling and a 10 New Pence piece was the same size as a florin (2 shillings). Are the present coins smaller than original New Pence coins or just lighter? Or is it just me thinking everything is smaller now?  There was no new coin worth the same as an old sixpence.

[Viktoria]

Do you know I do not remember those sizes ,but we lived abroad at that time so perhaps that is why .
I am going off the sizes now.
When home for a family visit we would buy stuff to take back and would be turning new currency to old currency
then to Belgian Franks .

Viktoria.

[Brie]

"There was no new coin worth the same as an old sixpence."

And don't I remember that. I had sixpence pocket money a week which remained at 2 and a half pence in new money. Chocolate bars however rose to 3p. Bitter - moi

[Maiden Stone]

Annual wage rates 1710-1797 for a variety of occupations.
https://pascalbonenfant.com/18c/wages.html
1755: Notional annual wages of labourers if they were employed all year. Their work may have been seasonal so their real annual wages may have been lower: general labourer £21; agricultural labourer £17.

Wages for skilled workers were higher, depending on the industry.
Women's wages were generally lower.

[collin]

Thank you   our man was a hat maker so probably skilled textile worker

[Viktoria]

I am not sure about that ,only women’s soft bonnets were made of woven fabric, felt hats were rabbit skins treated with mercury ,hence Mad
Hatters  - Mad as a Hatter- as  it got into their systems and did indeed send them mad.
Beaver skins were used in a similar way.
There were also straw hats ,a type of plaiting .
Stockport was the centre of hat making in the NW.
The skins were treated ,like tanning ,and put on wooden shapes that could be expanded ,for different sizes.”Blocked” .
Viktoria.

[BumbleB]

Very interesting, Viktoria - we lived in Cheadle Hulme for a number of years, and obviously had contact with Stockport.  I have to say that from personal experience I would NEVER have associated Stockport with hat-making. Tripe, yes! and my daughter running up and down the windows in M & S 

And the old 6p was known as a tanner, wasn't it?

Added - and daughter might have received the "smacked legs" for her excursion!  She didn't do it again! 

[suey]

Very interesting, Viktoria - we lived in Cheadle Hulme for a number of years, and obviously had contact with Stockport.  I have to say that from personal experience I would NEVER have associated Stockport with hat-making. Tripe, yes! and my daughter running up and down the windows in M & S 

And the old 6p was known as a tanner, wasn't it?

Coppers - farthings, ha’pennies, pennies
Joey - 3d
Tanner 6d
Bob - 1s
Half a dollar - 2/6d
Dollar 5/-

Quid or a Nicker - one pound
Half a nicker - 10 Bob   
Fiver - 5 pounds
Tenner - ten pounds
Score - 20 pounds
Pony - 25 pounds
Monkey - 500 pounds
Grand 1000 pounds

The coinage terms were common in our house, as was the quid. The rest I learned from my East Ender husband.