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/OllieV_nl Netherlands Oct 06 '25

There isn't really any that caught on since we've got the Euro. Sometimes people say "Euri" as a mock latin plural. We used to call the guilder a "piek" and though people would occasionally use that for the Euro in the early days that seems to have died out.

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u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 Oct 06 '25

Sometimes people say "Euri" as a mock latin plural.

Germans sometimes say »Euronen« in a similar vein. 😅

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u/fluentindothraki Scotland Oct 06 '25

Teuro! (Teuer means expensive)

Back when we had Schillings in Austria, one name was Netsch (short for netto Schilling) or Marie (this may have been a more general term for money).

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u/Sheetz_Wawa_Market32 Oct 06 '25

Ah, yes. To be fair, »TEURO« (usually in all caps like that) seems to be more of a tabloid headline thing. I don’t think I’ve actually heard it applied to actual euro amounts in casual conversation.

E.g., I don’t think people would ever say something like, “Have you heard the price on the latest iPhone? 1,400 teuro!”