paltry vs threepenny

paltry

adj
  • Trashy, trivial, of little value. 

  • Of little monetary worth. 

  • Despicable; contemptibly unimportant. 

threepenny

adj
  • Of little worth; mean; vulgar. 

  • Having a value or cost of threepence. 

noun
  • A stamp worth three pence. 

How often have the words paltry and threepenny occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )