Anyone Else Remember

[bobh]

I don’t remember farthings but they disappeared a fair time before the threepenny bit.

I remember the farthing, with the wren on the reverse - but I think it was an old coin after they went out of circulation as I'd have been t oo young to have been spending them.
But I have a threepenny bit (pronounced "thruppenny" ) as I told my kids about xmas stocking with an apple and/or orange and a 3d bit at the bottom.
They got me a threepenny bit one year minted in the year of my birth, cheeky sods

[Taunton Blue Genie]

And who remembers someone who was useless at heading the ball being described as having a head like a 'thrupenny' bit?