fippenny bit

== English == === Noun === fippenny bit (plural fippenny bits) (obsolete, US, Pennsylvania region) The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar. ==== Usage notes ==== 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.