He was a doctor at the time when doctors charged a shilling, but he was known as the 'threepenny doctor'.
He said he did not want threepenny bits, and he did not know who did.
He does not know the difference between a threepenny stamp and a drum of oil.
I presume that it is taken that people do not want to go to the trouble of getting a threepenny and a penny stamp.
We aways provided a penny, tuppenny or threepenny rate towards the housing revenue account to share the burden of our massive slum clearance programme.
A man would have a threepenny bet and there was a shilling entrance fee.
There will be a great slowing down while ordinary people are calculating new decimal currency coins in terms of half crowns, sixpences and threepenny bits.
He told us that a threepenny rate was the utmost he ever contemplated to be spent upon education.
