Sentence:  I remember playing card games with my grandfather. Games of memory, not of skill. If I won, he gave me <WSD>sixpence</WSD>; if he won, he didn't. We would play until I was bored, or until he ran out of <WSD>sixpences</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A former British coin worth sixpence, first (minted) in 1551.