Sentence:  The Semissis, or מםימם Mesimes, was the half of an assar, or the 192d part of a shekel: its  weight was 2 barley corns, and its value equal to ּ146, or the 7th part nearly of a <WSD>penny sterling</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A British coin worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling, made of silver prior to 1496, and copper thereafter, Abbreviation: d.