English

Noun

elevenpence ‎(plural elevenpences)

1. (Britain, obsolete) the value of eleven old pennies
   • 1915, Caradoc Evans, "A Heifer without Blemish" in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1918, p. 35,

     Now the dealer was a young man, who did not know the ways of Castellybryn, and he was aware that the first dealer was a big buyer and a cunning bargainer; so he purchased the butter for elevenpence farthing a pound, being a farthing a pound above the market price of that day.