0 a small brass coin used in Britain until 1971, or an earlier silver-coloured coin, that was worth three old pennies, or this amount of money
Junior members, admitted in 1907, paid threepence or sixpence, depending on age.
At one penny admission they were cheaper than the threepence needed for a gallery seat at the music hall.
She ekes out her housekeeping by threepences and sixpences.
For all that the innkeeper is allowed to charge threepence; it used to be twopence halfpenny.
I think it was between twopence and threepence.
Indeed, hardly a day went by without there being a price rise on something—not halfpennies, but pennies, twopences and threepences.
They were getting threepence and fourpence an hour for casual labour.
Many of the old cottage hospitals, which were built with the donations of pennies and threepences a week by the miners, are to be closed.
