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Is this an article about a coin (first paragraph), or a disambiguation page (second paragraph)? This is why I added the cleanup-date flag.

It also could use a Wiktionary/dictionary citation for the adjective. Brendan


When was it used for a nickel? When was it circulated? RJFJR (talk) 12:34, 15 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The page https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fippenny_bit has a note:

"Before the act of Congress, February 21, 1857, caused the adoption of decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from circulation, this coin passed 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."

Shouldn't these synonyms be worked into the article? 62.147.62.247 (talk) 20:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

So what did they call it in Spanish?

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If this is a term for a Spanish coin, shouldn't it have a name in Spanish? Wiktionary doesnt have it either. Even if it somehow was used only in areas of the Spanish Empire that didnt speak Spanish, there would have to be some word for it in Spanish and I dont think they would just say "picayune". Soap 03:35, 11 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

medio real, I guess. --Error (talk) 19:21, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]