Green’s Dictionary of Slang

touch-me n.

[rhy. sl.; touch-me-on-the-nob = bob n.3 (2)]

1. as proper name, Bob.

[UK]Sporting Times 29 Nov. 1/1: Touch Me On The Nob. He has olivered. He took his daisy roots off his plates of meat and threw them in my chivy.

2. one shilling (5p).

[UK]Mirror of Life 27 July 14/2: ‘I'll bet a wheel or touch me, / He’s some broady in his sky’.
[Scot]Eve. Teleg. (Dundee) 3 Aug. 4/1: He borrows a 'touch me' from a pal [...] 'touch me on the knob' (bob or shilling0.
[Aus]Advertiser (Adelaide) 20 Oct. 20/9: The same coin [i.e. a shilling] is also known as a ‘touch-me’, short for ‘touch me on the nob’, the rhyming slang for bob.
[UK]J.B. Booth Sporting Times 89: An’, s’elp me, I’d ‘ardly got a touch-me in my sky, much less an amesjay to pay for me saint an’ sinner!