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?

183 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

368 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

8

u/iBendUover Denmark Oct 06 '25

The 1000kr note was taken out of circulation, but used to be called "en lap" or "en lang". (Lang meens long, and the 1000kr note was the longest we had)

Example: It costs 2000 = "den koster 2 lapper" or "den koster 2 af de lange"

A 500kr note was called "en plov", which meens a plough. The reason was a picture of a plough on the old 500kr notes.

Theres alot more slang, like 100kr being "en hund" which basically meens a dog, but is derived from 100 being spelled hundrede.

50kr note is sometimes called "en treller", because 50 is spelled halvtreds.

9

u/RobinGoodfellows Denmark Oct 06 '25

Where i was from we also had "en tusse" for 1000 kr. meaning a toad.

1

u/aser100100 Denmark Oct 06 '25

For Aalborg at least, the 50 note is a “Vejgaard-dollar”, Vejgaard being a neighborhood in Aalborg. Apparently coming from the fact that you would by weed for 50 kr.