Picayune

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 165

Picayune, a name derived from the Carib language, and used in Louisiana for a small coin worth 6½ cents, current in the United States before 1857, and known in different states by various names (fourpence, fipence, fip, sixpence, &c.).

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