threepenny bit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The paper's lead story says the £1 coin is to be scrapped in favour of a new design "shaped like an old threepenny bit".
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2014
I especially loved the threepenny bit for its dodecagonal - 12-sided - weirdness, its brass and nickel sallow yellow gleam and the crowned portcullis on its back.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2010
Opening it, he went back to Granny's side and showered its contents upon her lap—two halfpennies and four pennies, a sixpenny and a threepenny bit, and a bright farthing.
From That Little Beggar by Hall, E. King
The bonnet was composed of a single scrap of antique lace folded over a threepenny bit.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 by Various
An anna is a penny, and that little coin like a threepenny bit is a two-anna bit.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
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