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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.
The British threepence piece, usually simply known as a threepence, thruppence, or thruppenny bit, was a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1 ⁄ 80 of one pound or 1 ⁄ 4 of one shilling. It was used in the United Kingdom , and earlier in Great Britain and England .
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 ...
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 ...
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 Pennsylvania parents of a 21-year-old blind and deaf man with cerebral palsy who died in September after being starved for months have been charged in connection to his death, authorities ...
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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 ...