See also:

• 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)

BAWBEE (of very doubtful origin, the most plausible conjecture being that the word is a corruption from the name of the See also:

• MINT
• MINT (Lat. moneta; Mid. Eng. mynt)

mint See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master Sillebawby, by whom they were first-issued, c. 1541)  , the Scottish name for a See also:

• HALFPENNY, WILLIAM

halfpenny or other small See also:

• COIN
• COIN (older forms of the word are coyne, quoin and coign, all derived through the O. Fr. coing, and cuigne from Lat. cuneus, a wedge)

coin, and hence used of See also:

• MONEY

money generally . A writer in 1573, quoted in See also:

• TYTLER, WILLIAM (1711-1792)

Tytler's See also:

• HISTORY

History of See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, speaks of " a coin called a See also:

• 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)

bawbee, . . . which is in value See also:

• ENGLISH

English one See also:

• PENNY (Mid. Eng. peni or peny, from O. Eng. form penig, earlier penning and pending; the word appears in Ger. Pfennig and Du. penning; it has been connected with Du. pand, Ger. Pfand, and Eng. " pawn,". the word meaning a little pledge or token, or with G
• PENNY, GIANFRANCESCO (1488–1528)

penny and a See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter." The word was sometimes written " babie," and has therefore been identified merely with a " baby coin," but this See also:

• ETYMOLOGY (Gr. grvµos, true, and X6yos, "account)

etymology is less probable .