Copper Público Deposited
i.e., " a copper " (and the plural coppers), is used colloquially in England to denote any small copper coin and in the United States it means a cent. Shakes- peare in Love's Labour's Lost (iv. 3. 386) says, " our copper buys no better treas- ure," and Steele, in The Spectator (No. 509), states that " the beadle might seize their copper."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)