Picayune!

[Wawannabe]

Rep. Raskin just used it re: the defenses comments!

Word of the day. Or maybe trial!

[dweller]

1. def

petty; worthless.
"the picayune squabbling of party politicians"

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[roamer65]

2. A Spanish American 1/2 real coin.

Very small coin worth about 6.25 cents. The NOLA Times-Picayune is named after what it used to cost.

They circulated widely up until about 1860.

[Lars39]

3. I've always wanted to hear that spoken out loud.

[hlthe2b]

4. Trivia around that... Have you ever wondered why New Orleans newspaper, the Times Picayune

was named that?

Jan. 25, 1837. Francis Lumsden and George Wilkins Kendall published a four-page newspaper they called The Picayune, named after a Spanish coin worth about 6 cents

[roamer65]

5. I collect Spanish American coin.

We not only stole land from the Spanish and Mexicans, we pegged our currency to theirs until 1857.

Picayunes or 1/2 real coins are fun and affordable to collect.

[marble falls]

7. That's where "2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar" came from, Spanish "pieces of eight"

Pieces of eight were legal tender in the USA until 1857, pieces of eight were the world's first global currency.

[roamer65]

8. Correct.

We used the term “Spanish milled dollar” or eventually just “dollar”.

The United States hard pegged our currency to Spanish American reales in 1793.

Most Continental Currency was denominated in Spanish milled dollars, aka pieces of eight or 8 reales.

Mexico continued minting “dollars” or 8R’s all the way to 1897.

1/2 reales were commonly called fips, picayunes or fippenny bits.

1 reales were called bits or levies.

2 reales were called quarters or two bits

4 reales were called halves or half a dollar.

An American dime was called a short bit.

[marble falls]

6. Or a newspaper ...