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BAWBEE (of very doubtful origin, the most plausible conjecture being that the word is a corruption from the name of the mint master Sillebawby, by whom they were first-issued, c. 1541)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 551 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAWBEE (of very doubtful origin, the most plausible conjecture being that the word is a corruption from the name of the mint master Sillebawby, by whom they were first-issued, c. 1541) , the Scottish name for a
halfpenny
  or other small coin, and hence used of money generally. A writer in 1573, quoted in
Tytler
 's History of
Scotland
 , speaks of " a coin called a bawbee, . . . which is in value
English
  one
penny
  and a
quarter
 ." The word was sometimes written " babie," and has therefore been identified merely with a " baby coin," but this
etymology
  is less probable.


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