Wiktionary
tickey
n. (context South Africa obsolete English) A silver threepenny bit.
Usage examples of "tickey".
We saw the white people look out of their windows, like ghosts, and sometimes they would toss us one of their Rhodesian pennies-large copper coins with a hole in the middle-or, if we were lucky, a tiny silver coin we called a tickey, which could buy us a small tin of syrup.