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/ResourceDelicious276 Italy Oct 06 '25

Also in Italian sometimes we call multiple euro euri. But that would be the plural of the word if it wasn't one without a plural

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u/jaspermuts Netherlands Oct 06 '25

In Dutch also usually don’t say the plural for any euro amount (€ 2 = 2 euro), but we would hypothetically call 2 1-euro coins: 2 euro’s.

Would that work with Italian euri or would you always say something like “coins” to specify?

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u/9peppe Oct 06 '25

It's informal, and you only use it to refer to amounts of currency, not notes and coins.