Bretrick
SF VIP
- Location
- Perth Western Australia
Everyone who is British and of advancing age know of this.
The rest? Baffled what?
The rest? Baffled what?
Last edited:
Tuppence ha'penny? (longer title)
- Thread starter Bretrick
- Start date
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
we lost our original sterling because the new generation couldn't count lol...so we had to go decimal so everything just counted to ten
oscash
Senior Member
- Location
- Sydney - Australia
I had an old Uncle who used to say thruppence for a thrippeny piece.
Thripenny bit, the original bit coin...
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
don't forget the tanner... and the florin.... and the 1/2 crown.....
oscash
Senior Member
- Location
- Sydney - Australia
Oh Yes, I remember them well.
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
that's what everyone called it... thruppence...or a thruppeny bit..or thruppeny piece,,, I still have some somewhere....
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
Sunkist
Senior Member
oscash
Senior Member
- Location
- Sydney - Australia
I do have a couple of them.
Bretrick
SF VIP
- Location
- Perth Western Australia
I remember having a florin coin here in Aussie land in the 70s? Even though we changed over to decimal in '66 Florins were still floating round.
oscash
Senior Member
- Location
- Sydney - Australia
A threepenny piece is a British coin that is worth three farthings, three farthings equal one penny. (Wikipedia)
Nathan
SF VIP
- Location
- High Desert- Calif.
If I ever make it to the UK I'm not asking "how much" for a purchase, will just tap my credit card and decline a printed receipt. 
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
no that's wrong ...a threepeny ( thruppenny) is worth 3 old pennies.... there was 4 farthings in a penny.. so it would have taken 12 farthings for a thruppenny bit .....
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
lol.. that old £SD... we don't have that since 1971... it's all pence, now... same as the USA... except instead of cents in the dollar... 100 pence in a pound.... £1..00If I ever make it to the UK I'm not asking "how much" for a purchase, will just tap my credit card and decline a printed receipt.
You would get more for a threepenny bit, back then,
you get for a pound today.
In the early 1960s, you could get 16 pints of beer in
a pub, for a £1, today, in a pub near where I live the
price is £8 per pint, or £6 at the Happy Hour.
Money has not a lot of value, today, I don't think.
Mike.
you get for a pound today.
In the early 1960s, you could get 16 pints of beer in
a pub, for a £1, today, in a pub near where I live the
price is £8 per pint, or £6 at the Happy Hour.
Money has not a lot of value, today, I don't think.
Mike.
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
when I left school, in 1970 I worked a 40 hour week in a Computer and Punch card operating room...for the princely sum of £4/10s... it was poor money even then... but today it barely buys me one punnet of grapes....at the supermarket.
My mother died in '73 if she came alive today she would die of shock at the prices now...
WHAT!!!!! I still think and talk in the 'old money'....... a penny for your thoughts, Holly.we lost our original sterling because the new generation couldn't count lol...so we had to go decimal so everything just counted to ten
I was about 11 (1947) and walking to school in the peeing down rain when I spotted something edge on sticking up between two paving stones. It was a two bob coin, I felt like a millionaire because those were really tough times.
When I got home and gave it to my Mam, she nearly hugged my head off.
When I got home and gave it to my Mam, she nearly hugged my head off.
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
today the value of that 2 bob...( 10p) would buy the equivelent of £5.66 worth of food....I was about 11 (1947) and walking to school in the peeing down rain when I spotted something edge on sticking up between two paving stones. It was a two bob coin, I felt like a millionaire because those were really tough times.
When I got home and gave it to my Mam, she nearly hugged my head off.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html
You was robbed.
hollydolly
SF VIP
- Location
- London England
even I... who was only 16 when we changed over... still think ..OMG that xyz would be 15/- in old money... like an apple for example... and I remember being able to buy 2 of latest 45 top of the chart hits for 15/-WHAT!!!!! I still think and talk in the 'old money'....... a penny for your thoughts, Holly.