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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]]
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