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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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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Barbara Allen (song) (redirect from Bawbee Allen)
"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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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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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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Billon bawbee coin of James V of Scotland (coined between 1538 and 1543)...
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