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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    "Barbara" in almost all American versions and some English versions, and "Bawbee" in many Scottish versions. Her name is sometimes "Ellen" instead of "Allen"...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Billon bawbee coin of James V of Scotland (coined between 1538 and 1543)...
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    Me Impune Lacesset") appears as a reverse inscription on the Scottish "Bawbee" (6 pence) coin of King Charles II surrounding a crowned thistle. Examples...
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