pienikin
Pienikin is a fictional monetary unit used in worldbuilding and speculative fiction to denote the smallest commonly circulating coin or digital subunit of a currency. The name is derived by analogy from the Polish word pieniądz for money, with the diminutive suffix -kin to signal a small size.
In-world usage, economies often feature a base unit that is subdivided into pienikin. A common convention is
The presence of pienikin can illuminate economic aspects in narratives, such as the effects of inflation, exchange
In real life, the term pienikin may surface in Polish-language texts as a poetic or colloquial reference
See also: pieniądz, grosz, cent, fictional currencies, worldbuilding.