The full poem reads, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe."

In the barmbrack were a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin (originally a silver sixpence), and a ring.

Ikey returned the copper coin to his dumby and found a silver sixpence which he handed backwards to the boy.

And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

"A whole silver sixpence, all for yourself."

Out fell a single silver sixpence.

There's always some mouth who fancies himself at cards and who's got a silver sixpence to lose in a hurry.

Jack dug into a waistcoat pocket, pulled out a silver sixpence.

Shortenings such as "tuppence" are now rarely heard and terms such as "tanner" (the silver sixpence), which previously designated amounts of money, are no longer used.

She had always given them a silver sixpence each, and so she still did, coolly disregarding changes in the currency.