1 Bawbee - William and Mary

The bawbee — a denomination whose name likely derives from the lairdship of Sillebawby, held by the master of the Scottish mint under James V — had been a silver coin before inflation and repeated debasements reduced it to copper by the Restoration period. William and Mary's Scottish copper coinage was struck under the authority of a mint that would survive only another fifteen years; the Act of Union in 1707 abolished the Edinburgh mint as an independent institution. Sp#5670 represents one of the last generations of distinctly Scottish small coinage before that consolidation.