A year or two ago, Cards Against Humanity sold 1 square foot plots of land on an island in Maine for $15 as a joke/promotional deal. This got me thinking: did anyone do something similar in societies that only allowed suffrage to landowners? Like paying a pittance for a very tiny piece of land, as a sort of a loophole to gain suffrage. I imagine an entrepreneurial landowner could make decent money from selling off very small portions of worthless land for this purpose.
Edit: I'm mostly thinking of Colonial America and the early United States in this question, but I'd be interested to hear about any society that restricted suffrage in this way.
I don't know about America, but in Britain prior to 1900, there were property qualifications that stated you had to own property equal to £10 pa in towns and £5 pa in the countryside. So you couldn't just buy a square foot of land and become eligible to vote.