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threepence::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of threepence
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Not long after that, two girls offered me threepence in class to show them my willy.
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In 1966, two stamps were issued, priced fourpence and 1 shilling and threepence, both carrying Burns'portrait.
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Beginning in 1834 threepence pieces were struck for circulation, bearing the same design as the Maundy threepence.
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This would have changed the threepence into 2.5 new pence, the sixpence into fivepence and the half crown into a two shilling, five pence piece.
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These arms were used by the government and appeared on the sixpence coin from 1910 until 1963, and the threepence, shilling and florin from 1910 to 1936.
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These girls were paid 6d a week, although threepence of this was banked on their behalf to build up a cash sum to be given on their eventual departure.
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The landlord converted the tokens into cash, but only after deducting threepence per person, which had to be spent on beer, a variation on the truck system.
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- Former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies
- The Australian Threepence was a small silver coin used in the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalization. It was minted from 1910 until 1964, excluding 1913, 1929 - 1933 inclusive, 1937, 1945 and 1946. ...
- The threepence or thrupenny bit was a denomination of currency used by various jurisdictions in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, until decimalisation of the pound sterling and Irish pound in 1971. ...
- The three-pence coin was a pre-decimal coin worth 1/80 of an Irish pound. The Irish name (leath reul) literally meant "half reul", the reul being a sixpence coin worth the same as the Spanish real.
