Hape Pubblico Deposited
A Scotch nickname for a half-penny and common to Lanarkshire.
Nicholson, in his Idylls, 1870 (106), has: "Dae ye want the Citeez [Citizen]? Evenin' or Weekly? It's only a hape."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)