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1 Bodle - William II Type II
| Issuer | Scotland |
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| Year | 1696 |
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| Currency | Pound Scots (1136-1707) |
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| Obverse lettering | GVL · D · G · MAG · BR · FR · ET · HIB · REX · (Translation: William, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The bodle — a Scottish copper coin worth two pennies Scots, or one-sixth of an English penny — was famously derided as near-worthless even in its own time, giving rise to the expression "not worth a bodle." William II's copper coinage for Scotland was struck at Edinburgh under conditions of chronic underfunding; the Scottish mint struggled throughout the 1690s with copper supply and authorization disputes with the London treasury. The Type II designation distinguishes a revised die treatment introduced partway through the reign.