(obsolete, US, Pennsylvania region) The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar.
(obsolete, US, Pennsylvania region) The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar.
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(US, obsolete) fippenny bit.
(now, _, historical) A fivepenny; a fivepenny bit.
(British, informal, dated) fivepence.
A British informal contraction of 'fivepence' — the sum of five pennies. The clipped form follows a general pattern of colloquial British money talk (cf. 'tuppence' for twopence, 'tenpence'). Largely obsolete since decimalisation, but still encountered in older literature and occasionally in regional speech.
(especially, Louisiana, historical) A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.