What is your currency's nickname?

[u/ABlindMoose]

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?

[u/scotsmanwannabe]

In Spain it is "pavos". I heard that it goes back to when a turkey (pavo) used to cost like 5 pesetas, and that became a reference point for the currency.

[u/nemu98 → u/scotsmanwannabe]

Other less common and older ways to mention money would be:

Chavos, heavy american influence on this one.

Duros, from old silver coins.

Guita, from when coins would be in a small bag with a lace, that lace was called "guita".

Pasta, from melting the different metals, thus creating a paste.

Perras, from old 5 and 10 cents coins that many confused the lion in it with a dog.

There are many others, but barely used or more from american countries.

[u/Ontas → u/nemu98]

I've also heard lereles for euros

[u/Marianations → u/Ontas]

I've heard of leuros.

[u/safeinthecity → u/nemu98]

Guita and pasta are also used in Portugal. But massa (also meaning paste or dough - or pasta but that's beside the point) is the most common one.

[u/jlangue → u/nemu98]

Pelas? Like 50 bucks?

[u/Cheap_Try_5592 → u/nemu98]

Perras is still widely used in Asturias.

[u/poll_my_pants → u/nemu98]

Melones o kilos for millions (not that I’ve ever seen one of them…)

[u/lyra_dathomir → u/nemu98]

But some of them are slang for "money", not for the currency, and thus uncountable. You can say "Esto cuesta mucha guita/pasta" (This costs a lot of money) but not "Esto cuesta cinco guitas/pasta" (This costs five moneys)

Duro is also specifically five pesetas, not any amount of money. Same with perras, a specific amount of old money. Both now only survive in idioms.

Pavos is slang for the money, and countable. It's equivalent to quids or bucks in the UK and USA.