Pocket Change

Hi can someone tell me the origin of the phrase
Bits and Bobs and its meaning I can't find it anywhere.

Thanks

From various uses I found it seems to means "a variety of this and that".

Seems to be a UK thing and is often spelled "bits and BOB'S"---notice the capitalized letters.

Maybe some of you Brits out there can fill us in.

I'm not a Brit, but it seems to me that "bits and bobs" refers to pocket change such as nickels and dimes or dimes and quarters. While growing up in Ireland, a "bit" was a coin, three-penny bit or six-penny bit, much like a nickle and a dime. A "bob" was a shilling or twelve pence, similar to a quarter. Twelve shillings made up a pound. I hope my guess is correct.

'Bits and bobs' has now lost its association with coins. Bits and bobs are useful, even necessary, things. Odds and ends are usually leftovers.

Bobs were shillings. Twelve pennies made a shilling, twenty shillings made a pound. Twenty one shillings made a guinea, still used in horse sales I believe. The One Thousand Guineas and Two Thousand Guineas are classic horse races.

bits were small coins too - for example a three-penny bit - a coin worth 3 pennies was called a "thrupenny bit" and is Cockney rhyming slang for 'tit' (go on luv, show us yer thrupennies!).
bits were small coin and bob's - no capitals required - were shillings, as in 2 Bob or (if I remember properly) a 10 Bob note.

when I first had pocket money - I used to be given a thrupenny bit to buy a 'mystery bag' of sweets. back in the 1960s you could buy paper bags with an unknown assortment of small sweets.
happy days!