Bender Öffentlichkeit Deposited
A slang name for the English sixpence ; it probably owes its origin to the fact that it is easily bent. Dickens in Sketches by Boz says " Niver mind the loss of two bob and a bender; " and Thackeray in The Newcomes (xi) has " By cock and pye it is not worth a bender. "
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)