By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …..
(n.)
Pronounced “pick-ah-YOON”.
Picayune is a regional word for the half dime that was more commonly used in the 19th century. The word comes from an adjective that means small or worthless, which itself comes from the name for a Spanish coin equal to one-sixteenth of a dollar.
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