• The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.
Fip'pen·ny bit` (? or ?). [ Corruption of five penny bit .] The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, - - so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States. [ Obsolete] » Before the act of Congress, Feb. 21, 1857, caused the adoption of decimal coins and the withdrawal of foreign coinage from circulation,...
the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents. Also called