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Old 09-15-2016, 04:21 PM   #4
johnfowles
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Default Re: Morristown NJ Sept 14, 2016

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Originally Posted by johnfowles;189509[SIZE=3
Only too happy to oblige thruppence, [/SIZE]
JUst in case you wondered what I was getting at 3pennies,a word of explanation.

Here is a UK pre decimalisation theepenny coin

known in some UK dialects as a "thruppence" earlier this had been a silver coin (I might still have one in my old coin connection)
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