Coins With Nicknames (And Possibly Also Banknotes)

GR58 - Quite right, and good additional examples as well!

GR58, I always thought that eagle was the actual base denomination for gold coinage. Similar to how dollar is the base denomination for bills.

Somehow, a Weird Al reference seems fitting for a thread about coin nicknames...

The 1904 Panama 2 1/2 Centesimo is called 'The Panama Pill' as it is a tiny 10mm coin...

One of my favorites is the 'jack(donkey)' note. Insert the other word for a donkey. It is an 1880 $10 Legal Tender issue.



Turn the eagle upside down and it becomes a donkey, hence the name..

This note is called a 'Tombstone' note due to the portrait being in a tombstone shape. The man pictured is Thomas A. Hendricks who was vice president under Grover Cleveland. He only served the position for 8 months before his death in late 1885. The note below is a series 1886, issued only a year after his death and I've read rumors that the note was purposely designed with his portrait in the tombstone shape.

Here in Slovenia we tend to call any banknote with denomination of 1000 units a 'jur'. This was introduced with a famous 1000 dinar banknote of Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1920. On the banknote there's and image of st. George slaying the dragon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankn...ra-1920.jpg)
Jurij is slovenian for George.
So the term 'Jur' stays with 1000 unit banknote, be it later Yugoslavian (post-war) dinar, slovenian tolar or euro.

(And on a funny note: there's a mushroom we here call 'jur#269;ek' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_edulis ) and since my childhood until I started to look more into coins and banknotes, I was 100 % sure that somehow the 1000 unit banknote got a name from this mushroom :D )

EDIT:
Some other nicknames:
- On more than one occasion I've heard older people use term 'krajcar' (kreutzer) for describing small change.
- In western part of Slovenia you often hear term 'soldi' for money in general. This comes from Italian soldo coins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldo ).
- Small change is sometimes referred to as 'nežke'. I have no idea how and why. Same goes for the word 'fi#269;nik'.

Good point

Sometimes I take things as I think they are .. without out
doing the research.

It would be nice to have access to mint records. And to
see what they called the designs.

You could be right a Eagle may be like a Crown.

Did the mint use terms like Small eagle? Or Turban head?

The first gold .. would they say we are making a $10.00
gold coin or a Eagle. Did the denomination and design name
come first.

I would welcome a early gold coin expert.

So, a shilling is a "Bob". I was never sure what a Bob was. & I really like the donkey note.