Picayune

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This article is about the obsolete Spanish coin. For other uses, see Picayune (disambiguation).

A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, meaning "small coin". Besides being used in Spanish territories, it was also a common coin in the south of the United States, and the name has sometimes been used for the U.S. nickel, which was once worth approximately the same as a picayune. By extension, the word can mean "trivial" or "of little value".

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