The equivalent of a York shilling.
1802. [There was] a slight fracas between Ned Whiffle and Dick Slang, occasioned by the former refusing to lend the latter eleven pence, to get a glass of gin twist.—The Port Folio, ii. 220 (Phila.).
1826. There were many poor people that would have made the shirts for three elevenpenny bits apiece.—New-Harmony Gazette, May 3, p. 256/2.
1828. See NINE-PENCE.
1835. [We] were bid farewell with the gentle charge of three ’levenpenny-bits each for supper and lodging.—P. H. Nicklin, ‘Letters on the Virginia Springs,’ p. 76 (Phila.).
1842. The bones of the biggest statesman in the American Union, ground into dust, would not be worth an elevenpenny bit.—Mr. Hastings of Ohio, House of Repr., July 9: Cong. Globe, p. 699, App.
