three halfpence

It came to about one and three halfpence an hour.

You have to allow the coins changed now, the three halfpence is not comparable with the present pence.

The apprentice returned with the empty setting and informed Armory that it was worth three halfpence.

And the Dandipratt was an Elizabethan coin worth three halfpence.

If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter.

Three halfpence may refer to:

Bardolph stole a lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three halfpence.

At the time coins of 6d, 3d, three halfpence and three farthings were minted, each half of the previous denomination.

Three halfpence (British coin)

The goldsmith's apprentice looked at it, sneakily removed the stones, told the boy it was worth three halfpence and that he would buy it.

Thus delivering himself, Mr. Pell thrust his hands into his pockets, and, frowning grimly around, rattled three halfpence with terrible determination.

The three halfpence was issued again between 1834 and 1862 in the reigns of William IV and Victoria for use in the colonies.

There we could get English papers the morning after publication: for penny papers we paid three halfpence, for halfpenny papers twopence!

William IV, Victoria Elizabethan Three Halfpence Detailed values of these hammered coins are not available.

THE FLOWER GIRL [disappointed, but thinking three halfpence better than nothing] Thank you, sir.

The Three Halfpence Red, first issued on 1 October 1870, was the first Three Halfpenny postage stamp issued in the United Kingdom.

Supposing that in selling him a ticket the company said, "We will change you a sovereign, but we shall charge you three halfpence for doing so," what would my typical man exclaim?

He cursed and blasphemed about three halfpence, missing, as he said, some weeks before, in an account of change with his groom, about hay to a starved horse that he kept.

It cost three halfpence and covered news primarily from Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge, Mossley, Dukinfield, Droylsden, Hooley Hill, Denton and Hyde.

At three times your sowing you ought to have six bushels, worth three shillings, and the cost amounts to three shillings and three halfpence, and the ground is yours and not reckoned.

In the price of threepence halfpenny, which is at present paid for a pot of porter, the different taxes upon malt, hops, and beer, together with the extraordinary profit which the brewer charges for having advanced them, may perhaps amount to about three halfpence.

He also received credit for any victuals he returned unused, but the price he received as creditor was always lower than the price he was charged as debtor - for example, three halfpence a pound for bread issued, but only a penny farthing a pound as returned.