What's the difference between eightpenny and threepenny?
Eightpenny
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Threepenny
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(a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
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(1) The new 12-sided coin, which resembles the old threepenny bit, will be the world’s most secure coin in circulation, the government claimed.
(2) The new coin will be based on the threepenny bit that disappeared from circulation after decimalisation in the 1970s, with designers claiming it will be "the most secure in the world".
(3) The coin is based on the historic three pence piece, also known as the “threepenny bit”, which was the first coin to feature a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
(4) The Royal Mint will make more than 1.5bn of the new coins, whose design is based on the threepenny bit, which went out of circulation in 1971.
(5) A new 12-sided pound coin based on the threepenny bit is being unveiled – and is said to be the hardest in the world to fake.
(6) Resurrecting the shape of the old threepenny bit is a stroke of genius.
(7) Photograph: Controluce Arena applied for a role in a production of Brecht's Threepenny Opera on which Punzo was working.