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  • n  a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies

  • After the Depression it reduced its price from twopence to the vulgar level of the penny press in an attempt to restore circulation.
  • Since September Britons' weekly price-fixed beef, mutton and pork ration had fallen from two shillings twopence (43) to one-and-ten (37), then one-and-six (30), then one .
  • It limits what a candidate may legally spend to 450, plus twopence for each voter in a county constituency, a penny ha'penny for each voter in a borough constituency.

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