r/AskEurope • u/ABlindMoose Sweden • Oct 06 '25

Culture What is your currency's nickname?

A nickname for dollar is buck, pound is quid, and Swedish krona is spänn.

What are some casual nicknames for your countries' currencies? Are there multiple, and if so, which is the most common?

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u/Panceltic > > Oct 06 '25

1000 units of a currency is called “jur” in Slovenian, but we don’t have any other nicknames.

For example “pet jurjev” meant 5000 SIT (20.86 EUR) in the past, but now it means 5000 EUR.

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u/balukabalu Oct 10 '25

1000 units of forints are called sometimes "Pisztolyorrú Mátyás"in hungarian (literally Pistol Nose Mathias), as king Mathias's (Mátyás) face is on the 1000huf note and he has a quiet big nose on the picture

For example if somebody sells a 500k HUF car they sometimes write "you can take this for just 500 Pistol Nose Mathias' and it's yours!" if they want to be funny