Définition

• An English dialect term for the thick half Pennies of the reign of George III.

  John Gait, in The Last of the Lairds, 1826 (iv. 1) has the following: "I gave him a whole penny, twa new bawbees, gude weight, for it was then the days o' the tumbling Tarns."

La source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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