Polymath 709

[Spriggins]

Word meaning 5d in predecimal currency: f?p?????
A ticket that may (or may not) conceal a prize: ?????c? c?r?
A deep collar worn to cover a low neckline: ?e?t?a

[emeritus]

2 Scratch Card

[Mamyalynne]

fippence

[emeritus]

1 Fippence ?

[Mamyalynne]

bertha

[Captain2]

2 Scratch Card

[emeritus]

3 Bertha

[Svejk]

Remember threepenny bits & tanners. Fipenny? is a new one. Was it a coin, once?

[boxtops]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Fippenny+bit

Fip´pen`ny bit`
1. The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, - so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.

[Spriggins]

Thank you all. I grew up with old money, and flippance is new to me too.

[grasscarp]

I remember farthings halfpennies pennies threepenny bit sixpence and a shilling half crown but never heard special word for 5d

[Svejk]

To be fair, we never talked about (or dreamt about) anything over thruppence. Sob,sob.

[boxtops]

never heard of fippence - it was thruppence or sixpence