bawbee

noun2

1. •
   (Scotland, historical) A coin originally worth six pennies Scots, and later three; held equivalent to an English halfpenny.
2. •
   (figurative) A copper; a small amount of money.

   • He said there were already plans for a tramline, and a museum of the theatre. Folk should not, he implied, waste their bawbees on the devil's spinning wheel. — 2007