Scrat Pubblico Deposited
An English dialect term for a coin of very small denomination. Ross, Stead, and Holderness, in A Glossary of Words used in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1877, cite the following: "He deed and didn't leeave a scrat behint. He's not worth a scrat. "
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)