Week # 53- Who's got the luck of the Irish?

[Danielle C.]

It's New Orleans,1855. You've just made a purchase, and the clerk gives you back change of three picayunes and two bits. How much money did you get?

 

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[keithdagen]

28 cents?

[RGT]

A picayune was worth 6 and 1/4 cents, while two bits was worth 25 cents. The total would have been 43 and 3/4 cents.

 

[Weidel Legacy Collection]

Interesting question!

 

Two bits were quarter reals and approximated our Quarter or 25 cents; picayunes were technically 12 1/2 cents but circulated as dimes. So the circulating value would be 80 cents, but the technical value would be 87 1/2 cents.

[EVillageProwler]

28c.

 

EVP

 

[ArtR]

25 and 3 tenths of a cent

[jtryka]

40 cents.

[carterhaines-migration]

It would be 43.75 US cents which is also equivalent to

7 picayunes, or 3.5 bits.

The one exception is if they are three extremely badly worn picayunes, It would only be worth 40 cents as a badly worn picayune used to be passed as a half dime instead of a 6.25 piece.

 

[Hoot]

picayune = 6.25 cents

bit = 12.5 cents

 

So, (3 x 6.25) + (2 x 12.5) = 43.75 cents!

 

Hoot

[Beijim]

Since a "picayune" was the smallest Spanish silver denomination and equal to half a bit (or 6 1/4 cents), and two bits equaled 25 cents, the math is:

 

2 bits --> 25 cents

3 picayunes --> (3 * 6 1/4) --> 18 3/4 cents

 

Total received equals (25 + 18 3/4) cents --> 43 3/4 cents.

 

Beijim

 

[BankNote1]

A Picayune is 6 1/4 cents. If I added correctly it would be 43 3/4 cents... Three picayunes is 18 3/4 and two bits is 25 cents...

[johnscoin-migration]

I believe that is 62 1/2 cents.

 

2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits, a dollar...

[DAM]

$0.27

 

Twenty seven cents

[DAM]

Got confused with my first answer.

 

I think this one's right.

 

0.4375

 

Forty three and 3/4 cents

 

 

[SMS67-migration]

I guess,only a guess confused: $.28

[chrisfuccione]

a picayunes could mean a five cent piece or a half real. seeing that we are in the US and I belive that it was illgal at that time to use forien transactions in the US I will have to think you mean a five cent piece. Two bits is a quarter. So you would get 40 cents back. CHRIS

[shadroch]

40 cents

[Drizzt]

62½¢

[rgv]

62.5 cents

[PQSeated]

Well, a picayune equals five cents a piece according to an online reference. The online reference also said two bits equals one eighth of a dollar. (Reference was dictionary.com) So the total would be $.275.

[BOILER78]

35 cents

[davefperry]

40 cents

[ms66quarters]

.40cents

[Wihlborg]

.40 cents

 

Thanks

John

[Danielle C.]

The question: It's New Orleans, 1855. You've just made a purchase, and the clerk gives you back change of three picayunes and two bits. How much money did you get back?

 

 

The answer is 40 cents.

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

 

The winner is Jtryka!

Your prize is two display boxes.

 

 

Runner up winner is shadroch.

Your prize is a NGC mug.

 

Your prizes will be sent out ASAP.

 

 

Thanks for your participation!

 

 

 

[PQSeated]

Does that mean dictionary.com was wrong with their values?!?!?!?!?

[bronze]

You Numismatics are nuts.

Makes me glad I'm a Panelologist.

 

 

 

 

[bronze]

ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!