threepenny in English

adjective
1
costing or worth three pence, especially before decimalization (1971).
I vividly remember the threepenny lucky dips (a barrel filled with straw and some wrapped treasures) where you could hardly wait to open your surprise.
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1. Although issued as sixpenny pieces, the Bawbees of base silver were ‘cried doun' to threepenny pieces by an Act of James VI