On Tue, 20 November 2001, "Sean Richens" wrote:

> 
> ... the height of a sixpence = a dime (I'm assuming diameter, not
> thickness).
> 

My wife, who read this posting over my shoulder, said that a sixpence is closer in daimeter to a penny and about as thick as a nickle.

Lyle McNeal
SKA Finn O'Flaharty