The Australian Threepence // A Great Silver Coin For Collecting

[@jamiefrost2091]

Thanks for the education 👌, growing up, I always heard them referred to as “a thrupence”!! Btw, we must have been rich, cuz gran used sixpences🤣. Thanks again,Matt🙋🏻‍♂

[@ThompsonsCoins]

That's what my Nana says too actually 🤣 I think it may be a generational thing! Wowwee sounds like you were living it up!! 🥳☺️

[@ChuckyMcNubbin72]

Yes, it's advised to only use sterling silver coins for puddings. They're silver and copper. The 50% silver coins contain silver, copper and nickel. It's the nickel that can cause health issues. I was lucky enough to get a first-hand look at a 1922/21 (Rennicks, CAB magazine and the RAM list it that way, not 1921/22) overdate 3pence about 20 years ago. If i had had the funds, i would have bought it on the spot. When i was a kid, it was pronounced thripence. My grandparents called them "thrips" hence thripence.

[@peecee1384]

The coin features 3 stalks of wheat. A bundle of stalks is a sheaf. Each stalk of wheat contains 50 kernels or grains of wheat. Nice shirt 👕 👍

[@ThompsonsCoins]

This has been tremendously helpful thanks so much!! ☺️☺️

[@desgoulding7154]

Great video, Yes I too hold the view the this set is a good set. I had a number of great coins. Then I sold them. Now back into coins. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamiefrost2091]

Also, the 12 sided brass coin , we called a thrupenny bit’ . Many variations of names, I believe!!

[@ivan_thai]

Good to know about the 1921/22 over date threepence Matt! 👍

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for watching Ivan!! ☺️☺️

[@TheTorkerman]

Video ends - starts going through Grandma’s coin box 😉

[@Seven-Seven-77]

Christmas pudding was the 925 sixpence, we all had a stir of the mix before cooking and if you got one in your bowl it was good luck.

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for sharing your experience!! I hope you managed to get a few over of the years ☺️☺️

[@stephensecombe2027]

Hi Matt, I have all the Threepences you could buy a LOT of lollies back in the day I'm a 52 baby and we got a Great return for our pocket money not these days. keep up the GREAT work TOP JOB Champ. cheers. Stephen.

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for watching Stephen!! Thanks for sharing your threepence experience too! ☺️☺️

[@JimWemm-ql1ge]

Great stuff, please keep them coming. Thank you. 🍻

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for the kind words and for watching Jim!!

[@John-ul4hv]

3 Wheat stalks or 1 singular Wheat stalk, nice video

[@Capncoin]

Another great educational video thanks matt ❤

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks so much for watching!! 😊

[@philharmonicwittgenstein9662]

I have a 1943 with the S mint mark...

[@musamohammed8230]

Very good presentation

[@ihatepinecones99]

Tough question on what the coin depicts, it could be 3 heads of wheat with a few inches of stem on them or it could be 3 stalks of wheat because it includes some stem on each head. I'd lean more to calling them heads, because as an agronomist if I asked someone to bring me 3 stalks of wheat and they cut them that short I'd be disapointed, while if I asked for 3 heads of wheat and they cut them that long I wouldn't care. Also a grain is just what we call seeds from cereal crops, like wheat barley and oats.

[@ellenofahengaue5336]

Thank you ! Love your videos. My family is learning a lot.

[@AllotmentDiggers]

I'm working of a date run of The Australian Threepence I only need around 5 more to complete my date run...

[@THEDRAGONBOOSTER8]

Great video .The 21/22 was copied to no end..I had 2 unc 38 crowns Sold 1, WAY too cheap .Still have one. If I found a 21/22 with my detector I would be happy .I have dug up a 10 threepence..

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Indeed! Fortunately the copies looked even worse than the real ones so they are usually pretty easy to pick up on 🤣 I love the 38 crowns!! One of my favorite pre decimal coins actually! Best of luck with your detecting journey too!

[@jenna5677]

Awesome video Matt :)

[@hoder1_]

I just checked and while I do have some 1921 & 1922s in my collection, sadly none with both on the one coin. I did find a couple of 1910s though,

[@peteralflat281]

Im selling some 3 and 6 pences from a relatives estate. When researching the values on ebay a suspicious number if selker came from Albania. One of the 3d coins is Australian.

[@robertobuhiajr.4523]

sir as I know PL mint mark in Australian coin stands for, Pecunia Londinii -money of London, Percussa Londinio-struck at London,thanks.

[@ChuckyMcNubbin72]

I should add "thruppence" or "thrupney bit" is the British pronunciation. The Australian pronunciation is thrippence or thripney or simply thrips as a plural. Yeah, i spent a lot of time with my grandparents when i was a kid.

[@TaddyEusebio-ru8tn]

I have 1925 one florin-two shillings australian coin and elizabeth 1968 25cents canadian coin.

[@richardschorel6578]

Hi..my fav mint set is 2019 effigies

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Nice one Richard! I think that set is absolutely fantastic, it was so nice to see each of the older effigies represented in one set!

[@sticustom]

Mum use to boil the living daylights out of the three pence and six pence coins prior to putting them into the pudding. Mum placed a value on them so a three pence may have been worth 10 cents and a six pence 20 cents. In that way the coins were returned and not taken. Here’s some trivia for you. I think it was in England but a young girl stopped talking not long after Christmas one year. Doctors said she was faking it but she never spoke again. Many many years later she had a fit of coughing and she coughed up a blood clot. Upon examination they found a coin in the middle of it and not long after she started to regain her speech. It’s thought she had gotten the coin from the Christmas pudding and it had lodged in her vocal cords and stopped her vocal cord from vibrating and over the years the body tried to fight it and covered the coin in what looked like a blood clot. My Mother use to count all the coins going into the pudding and all those collected. No one ever swallowed one or broke a tooth as we knew to be careful. That might be why I like the Wheat Sheath One Dollar coin. 😅

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for sharing that fascinating story!! Definitely prefer a dollar and outside of my food, I'd be so nervous eating something that may or may not have a coin in it 🤣

[@williamdavis3578]

I dont have any 3 pence from Australia... Or any silver from down under I do have over a kilo of UK 3 and 6 pence mostly .925 silver

[@marwansyahyah679]

I'm from Indonesia quite a lot of King George coins

[@edeasisianou2953]

Have 3 Australian 3 pence(1950, 1961,1964). 1 six pence(1958 & i ix 1shilling(1956). Please advise if any value.)

[@meteoman7958]

I would describe the overdate as 1922/1.

[@thescpreads]

i have a 1956 wheet and a 1 half penny and a half penny

[@FrankMorley-zo1nn]

5:02 Hi there , I Have early threepence, 1910.1916.1949.1955.1959.1962.another.1959. Are they worth anything ?. I HAVE MANY ONE PENNIES AS WELL .VERY EARLY ..AND QUESTION WHERE CAN YOU GET THESE COINS SOLD. I HAVE HEAPS AND HEAPS OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS OK

[@marwansyahyah679]

King George Australia, India, Malaya and Borneo

[@kayyounger9848]

I have a 1922 threepence but cant see any flaw on the 2 - has this still have a value??

[@rahmatindrabusyairi4294]

I have it Elizabeth ll 1980

[@millieolysyd]

How about a stalk of wheat?😂

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Sounds good enough for me!! ☺️😎 Thanks for watching!!!

[@millieolysyd]

@@ThompsonsCoins No worries mate. Please continue to do more educational videos for our enjoyment and general knowledge.

[@robertdsouza2314]

I have a 1922 Australian threepence.*How do I contact you .

[@marwansyahyah679]

Can it be sold in Australia?

[@phugemawl]

I think it's a husk

[@dscoyner]

That would be 3 'heads' of wheat

[@danielpennings5405]

I've got a 1921 1922 error coin just discovered. Anyone interested?

[@theaustralianconundrum]

I have some mint unc beauties

[@ThompsonsCoins]

That's excellent! Its always nice to see the older silver coins in good shape! ☺️☺️

[@marwansyahyah679]

Can I sell it sir?

[@petervanrun4626]

I think thats a wheat sheaf, 3 in that case

[@petervanrun4626]

Hey Matt,apologies,I don't think my description is correct, the comment below is very interesting,peecee,it needs some research, an a more knowledgeable person on subject, even the idea of an exact 50 grains in,is it a strand, Thanks for the story of the three pence,goodonya Matt

[@ThompsonsCoins]

Thanks for watching Peter!!! ☺️☺️

[@tanvu7799]

Where im for sell

[@johnaussiegoldman-i7l]

not true to mannys 1921 were made so they stamp over the [1921 [ worth 120.000;00

[@David-w4y7f]

Three ears of wheat

[@marwansyahyah679]

I have COIN king George Australian colonial

[@Hobojay]

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