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Fippenny bit   Listen
noun
Fippenny bit  n.  The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. (Obs.) Note: Before the act of Congress, Feb. 21, 1857, caused the adoption of decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from circulation, this coin passed currently for 6¼ cents, and was called in New England a fourpence ha'penny or fourpence; in New York a sixpence; in Pennsylvania, Virginia, etc., a fip; and in Louisiana, a picayune.





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