Plack 4424829 215490980 2008-05-28T12:55:46Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[it:Plack]] {{Distinguish2|[[Placard]]}} {{Distinguish2|[[Plaque]]}} A '''plack''' ([[Scottish Gaelic]]: ''plang'') was an ancient [[Scotland|Scottish]] coin of the value of one twelfth of an English [[penny]]. It appears in the old song: :A’ that e’er my Jeanie had, :My Jeanie had, my Jeanie had, :A’ that e’er my Jeanie had ::Was ae [[bawbee|bawbie]] :There’s your plack, and my plack, :And your plack, and my plack, ::And Jeanie’s bawbie. The word is probably derived from the ancient [[Flanders|Flemish]] coin, a ''plaquette'', current before the introduction into the Netherlands of the introduction of the French money reckoned by [[franc]]s and [[centime]]s. It can be found in the works of [[Robert Burns]] too: :Nae howdie gets a social night, ::or plack frae them :(''Scotch Drink'') :Stretch a joint to catch a plack, :Abuse a brother to his back. :(''To Gavin Hamilton'') ==See also== *[[Bawbee]] *[[Bodle]] *[[Pound Scots]] *[[Scottish coinage]] ==References== * MacKay, Charles – ''A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch'' ([[1888]]) [[Category:Coins of Scotland]] {{Scotland-stub}} [[it:Plack]]