Its a unit of weight ancient Egyptians used in the Middle Kingdom.
They mostly weighed 90 to 91 grams of copper*.
*Common use of pay.
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Oh, dude, "deben" in ancient Egypt was a unit of weight used to measure precious metals like gold and silver. It was like their version of a fancy scale, you know? So, if someone back then said, "Hey, I'll trade you this cool trinket for 10 debens of gold," you better hope you had some shiny bling to hand over!
Sources for the study of the use of money in Egypt consists of documents of the temple, biographies and other archaeological data. Currency began to be used by the Egyptians as the Greco-Roman period. For most, the ancient Egyptians were never conceptualized the use of money. http://www.egyking.info/2012/09/ancient-egyptian-money.html