Rents ranged from 8 shillings to 12 shillings and threepence a week, or the equivalent of ?8 to ?0 in 2005.
22.
Threepences of the fourth coinage ( 1578 & ndash; 1582 ) are identical except for having a slightly lower silver content.
23.
In 1966, two stamps were issued, priced fourpence and one shilling and threepence, both carrying Burns's portrait.
24.
The " Irish Builder " appeared twice monthly and was originally priced at fourpence, reduced to threepence after 1866.
25.
Queen Elizabeth I ( 1558 & ndash; 1603 ) produced threepences during her third coinage ( 1561 & ndash; 1577 ).
26.
The scheme was contributed to by the worker who contributed fourpence, the employer who contributed threepence and the government who contributed twopence.
27.
The Bibles that were purchased and the salaries of the teachers in " Doremus " presumably cost at least a threepence.
28.
The three-halfpence coin closely resembles the English Three Farthing coin and the Threepence coin, which differed only in the diameter.
29.
The design continued in the reign of King George I, when threepences were produced in 1717, 1721, 1723, and 1727.
30.
Threepences were produced in 1729, 1731, 1732, 1735, 1737, 1739, 1740, 1743, 1746, and 1760.
