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I often give a thruppeny bit bearing the year they were born to new friends as a gift.
For the first time ever one has contacted me embarrassed to admit they seem to have spent it.

Now I wonder ........

No! It could not be that simple, but I will laugh my 'thruppenny bits' off if this turns out to be the case.

I may be being a bit Tom Thumb, but assume you refer to the resemblance to the pound coin...

Strewth! ...... and no mistake ...... well there's a thought.

BP,

Ahem…………………….My birth year is 1947, just in case you were wondering but too embarrassed to inquire.

J Peterson
Penniless in the USofA

PS ..... In cockney rhyming slang thruppenies equals breasts. As in Thruppenny Bits .... Tits.
As hinted at by Youngerap earlier.

Happy to send you a 1947 3d, 6d, shilling, florin and (I think 1d) if you want one, my pleasure (can't be sure about the 1d and the florin as I'm sitting in the Korean air lounge at JFK at the moment and can't check if they are available ).

This week's coin quiz:

Which British Coin is known as a "Beer Token"? A shiny sixpence from the year of your birth (provided you were born in 1963) to the first correct answer.

£2 coin.

Did you know the Royal Mint still makes a small number of thruppences? Something to do with them being needed as part of Maundy Money sets. Once we get through this Brexit business, maybe we can have a referendum on returning to a currency based on £-s-d? That will challenge the digital generation: how many Groats to the Pound?

how many Groats to the Pound?

I know that one (a useless bit of knowledge I've retained for no useful reason).
A groat was 4 pennies, so 240/4 = 60 to the £

Youngerap wins the shiny 6d, (available for free collection at the Coventry auction). The £2 coin is known as the beer token because a pint of beer cost £2 when the coin was first issued.

The 3d's still made in small quantity for Maundy money are, unfortunately, the silver 3d about the size of a modern 5p and not the chunky 6.6 gram 12-sider that ran all the pinballs in the arcade in Tooting where I passed my "pinball proficiency test" in the early '60s.