Does your country have a 'nickname' for its currency?

hi woody, i am from the philippines and our currency is the philippine peso and we call it "piso".though,if we are using the english language, which is our second language, we still refer it to peso.

In Canada, we refer to our one dollar coin as a "loonie" because the obverse side has a loon (a water fowl) and our two dollar coin is a "toonie." (Obverse side has polar bears but it is not call a "bearie!" Why do you think that is? Hmmm.) Anyway. We used to have paper money but they replaced the ones and twos with coins. Now they are thinking of taking the five dollar bills out of circulation and minting coins instead. We don't really like this trend because our pockets are getting heavier and heavier. (Holes in our pockets!) Pretty soon, we will be listing to the side when we walk because our pockets are so heavy. Which takes me back to a very funny memory. When my daughter was about three, we used to go down to the beach and one time, she got so engrossed in picking up pretty pebbles. I asked her if I could hold onto them for her and I got a firm and clipped "NO!" So she kept stuffing them into her sweatpants pockets. When it was time to go, she stood up and her pants stayed down. Dad and I were rolling on the sand laughing our heads off and she didn't think it was funny at all! She hates it when I tell people about that episode (she is now 24) but I love the expression on her face when it happened! I'm laughing now as I tell you this... :-]

In Scotland we call customers punters but I didnt know that was were it came from. Scotland does have alot of slang so i am trying to think. If you are rich you say "I am minted" because money comes from the mint where they make it. Oh we call our currency sterling pounds. I forgot to answer that bit. Right this is by far the worst response you will receive cos I am a snob and just call it money!

as you mentioned we often call our dollars "Bucks" but also the old "green back" a five dollar bill may be called a "fin" $1000 called a G-note $100 a C-note, then there is give me some "Dough" referring to any combination of moneys. Cash and Moola.

when I lived in Ireland it was still the punt! Here in scotland we obviously use pounds sterling which has nicknames like quid, sovereign, golden bullet etc!

Our Dutch "Gulden" from pre-Euro, or guilder on english, was commonly referred to as "pieken" or "pegels", but both were technically just alternative names for the 1 gulden coin. Other coins and bills have pretty much all have had other names as well. In the past we did have other names used for our gulden, like in example Florijn, where our currency simble fl. came from.

Rokda for indian Rupee

yes In India we have so many names some say Rokda, Mal

In the U.S and Canada is dollar or buck/bucks but also in Canada we have "loonies" and "toonies" which are $1 and $2 coins (we havent had $1 and $2 bills in yrs now)

There are several nicknames for money here in the states. I can't even think of them all. I did read somewhere that Princes William and Harry have their own nickname for pound notes. They call them brown, blue and pink (I think; shoot I don't remember what colors the pound notes come in lol) GRANNIES since they have pictures of their grandmother the Queen on them. I love that!!

In India, we call our currency as RUPEE. It has many names in different part of our country. A few mainly used for Rupee are "Roka", Paisa, Gokka etc., etc.

I haven't heard anyone call it "bread" for a long time, but I used to hear people say I've got to go make some bread, meaning I'm going to work so I can make some money.

Here in the States we have a lot of nicknames for money (since we worship it so much - lol!): bucks (probably the most common), greenbacks; smackaroos; jack; dough; bread; ka ching! bling......I'm sure there are some more that somebody could add. Thanks for a fun discussion!

I come from China and the RMB dosen't has the nickname.Bust in our oral talking,the 100yuan is called to be"Mr Mao".Because on the 100yuan paper currency,there are five great leaders on it and the first one is Chair Mao.So the 100yuan paper currency is always called"Mr.Mao".

The Philippine Pesos have different National Heroes in every amount.. So people sometimes refer to the 500 Pesos as "Ninoy" or the 50 Pesos as "Quezon". And since the 500 pesos' paper is yellow sometimes people say it as "keso" or cheese.

in my country,indonesia,money was called in rupiahs or uang.in my town,jogjakarta,we have a nickname for its currency.money in jogjakarta can be called duit,or in slang name is mothig.

Here in the US, dollars are called "bucks", as you mentioned. All bills are called "greenbacks" because of their color. They are also called "samoleons" for some reason that is not known to me. Money in general is called "dough" or "moolah". Quarters are "two bits" (12 1/2 cents is one bit for some reason); A five dollar bill is a fin or a fiver; a ten is a sawbuck or a ten-spot.

i come from China,our country's currency is renminbi,renminbi can be called "money bi",also we can call money as "silver dollar" in our country

I am from Pakistan and my currency name is Rupee but we don't have any nicknames and we call our currency by name in markets too.

In India we sometimes call it Rupees rather we have some nicknames for sum of money like 0.1 million is "Peti", 10 million is "Khokha"