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A bawbee was a Scottish sixpence. The word means a debased copper coin, valued at six pence Scots (equal at the time to an English half-penny), issued...

Bawbee Bridge is a bridge connecting Leven and Methil in Levenmouth, Fife, Scotland. A new bridge, built at a cost of £200,000, was opened in 1958. It...

James III in 1474 as a Scottish symbol and national emblem. In 1536, the bawbee, a sixpence in the pound Scots, was issued for the first time under King...

station is situated underneath Bawbee Bridge and has a 205-metre (224 yd) long island platform. The section of Bawbee Bridge which spans the railway was...

and minted locally. A wide variety of coins, such as the plack, bodle, bawbee, dollar and ryal were produced over that time. For trading purposes coins...

farthings appeared under James III. In James V's reign the bawbee (1+1⁄2 d) and half-bawbee were issued, and in Mary, Queen of Scot's reign a twopence...

Ritchie, who published it in a book called The Singing Street. The word bawbee refers to a Scottish sixpenny coin. Coltart died of a brain tumour, penniless...

"Barbara" in almost all American versions and some English versions, and "Bawbee" in many Scottish versions. Her name is sometimes "Ellen" instead of "Allen"...

Me Impune Lacesset") appears as a reverse inscription on the Scottish "Bawbee" (6 pence) coin of King Charles II surrounding a crowned thistle. Examples...

Billon bawbee coin of James V of Scotland (coined between 1538 and 1543)...

poetry of his circle. He wrote some popular Scottish songs, of which Jenny's Bawbee and Jenny dang the Weaver are the best known. He was also a captain in the...

the River Leven, and the resort town of Leven is on the east bank. The "Bawbee Bridge" links the two sides of the river. Historically, Buckhaven and Methil...

Voice, Keyboard Probably to be attributed to Neukomm XXXIa:252 Jenny's Bawbee G major Voice, Keyboard XXXIa:253A Cro Challin F major Voice, Keyboard XXXIa:253B...

process of mill and screw, being the first milled coinage of Scotland. Bawbee – Billon, six pence from 1537 Shilling Groat – Silver, equivalent to four...

the Victory" 2279. "Richard and I" 2280. "Peggy Gordon" 2281. "Crookit Bawbee" 2282. "Sweet Letty Lee" 2283. "The Dying Californian" 2284. "Henry and...

cream cheese, His coat was made of fine rost beef, His buttons were made of bawbee baps [bread rolls costing a halfpenny each], His breeks [breeches] were...

a half groat or Turner was a Scottish copper coin, of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny. They were first issued under...

acrobats] swung an' danced A' round in rings, On horse-hair strings. An' bawbee Dalls [halfpenny dolls] the fashions apit, Sae rosy cheekit, jimpy shapit...

Baronets, with a Duke at their head, not one, as it now appears, ever paid a bawbee-the Duke of Argyll and Sir James Cockburn alone, of the entire batch, having...

coinage – Coinage of Scotland before 1707 Pennyland – Scottish land measurement Bawbee – Scottish coin, a sixpence Bodle – Scottish coin Plack – Scottish coin...