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Threepence
Threepence meaning
The amount of money equal to that of three pence (old or new). | A former (pre-decimalisation) British or Irish coin worth three old pence.
Synonyms of Threepence
Example sentences (4)
Walker’s crisps were originally sprinkled with salt and sold at threepence per bag.
The threepence coin was struck in 1652 in Boston just weeks after the first mint in the then-British colony had opened, according to a statement released Monday by Stack’s Bowers Galleries, which handled the sale.
The baker’s cart delivered bread twice a week and I followed the horse down the road to collect his poo in my billycart, which I sold for threepence a cartload.
Their first joint venture was a magazine series called The Kaleidoscope, or Edinburgh Literary Amusement, sold for threepence.