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A 1943 brass threepenny bit. By the end of George V's reign the threepence had become unpopular in England because of its small size (George Orwell comments on this in Keep the Aspidistra Flying [3]), but it remained popular in Scotland. It was consequently decided to introduce a more substantial threepenny coin which would have a more ...
Thus a threepence coin or "threepenny piece" was referred to as a "threepenny bit", usually pronounced "thrupny bit". The term was used only for coins with a value of several named units (e.g., three pence), and never applied to a penny, shilling, or half crown coin. A 1946 "sixpenny bit" of George VI
The brass threepence, or "threepenny bit", was a twelve-sided British coin equivalent to 1 ⁄ 80 of a pound. Struck between 1937 and 1967, with a final issue for collectors dated 1970, it was the first British coin that was not round.
An American silver coin dating back to the 17th century, before the United States was founded, has sold for a record-breaking $2.52 million at auction, eight years after it was discovered in an ...
The threepence [1] or threepenny bit [2] was a denomination of currency used by various jurisdictions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, valued at 1/80 of a pound or 1 ⁄ 4 of a shilling until decimalisation of the pound sterling and Irish pound in 1971. It was also used in some parts of the British Empire (later known as the ...
Threepenny bit (value: three pence) Thrupney bit or threpney bit: Joey (also see Fourpence) Australia: trey (also spelt tray), or a trey bit, from the French "trois" meaning three. [22] South Africa [23] and Southern Rhodesia: tickey. [24] UK: When the new threepence coin replaced the fourpence coin in circulation in 1845, it took over its ...
A farthing was a mag, a silver threepence was a joey and the later nickel-brass threepence was called a threepenny bit (/ ˈ θ r ʌ p n i / or / ˈ θ r ɛ p n i / bit, i.e. thrup'ny or threp'ny bit – the apostrophe was pronounced on a scale from full "e" down to complete omission); a sixpence was a tanner, the two-shilling coin or florin ...
The old pennies quickly went out of use after Decimal Day, 15 February 1971—there was no exact decimal equivalent of them, and the slogan "use your old pennies in sixpenny lots" explained that pennies and "threepenny bits" were only accepted in shops if their total value was six old pence (exactly 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 new pence). The old penny was ...