Mr. Brown notes:
> It went up ha'penny, penny, penny-ha'penny, tuppence,
> tuppence-ha'penny, thruppence. Thruppence normally came in the form
> of a thruppeny bit (pronounced thrupp-nee bit), which was a
> twelve-sided greeny-browny coin, quite different from the bronze
> ha'pennies and pennies. I also have a silver thruppenny bit, though
> they stopped a long time before. It looks like a smaller version of
> the tanner or sixpence.

This post clearly demonstrates that Roy really knows how to coin a
phrase...and vice-versa.

Really.  I'm not quidding.

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