What are some currencies with weird names

One of my recent threads got me thinking about toher currencies with funny or weird names any one know of any

 

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Well, there's the Myanmar kyatt (meow)
And the Vietnamese dong
And the Malaysian ringgit (ding dong)

 

Are you for REAL or did BAHT write this.
I was having a KIP when I thought of LEU
HELLER I had a few DRAMS last night
Have you ever tried to KROON FRANC
BIRR its cold today.

 

Loonie

 

Got any toonies to post?

 

Whenever I sell a Hungarian filler on eBay I worry someone will mistakenly think I mean it's a filler coin, i.e. garbage to fill a spot.

 

Its enough to make your head POUND

 

Pounds aren't a weird name....

Originally, it was the worth of a pound of sterling silver...

The name makes more sense than dollars...

 

"Dollar" is merely the English corruption of "taler", which was a large silver-dollar-sized coin produced by various German-speaking states. Any silver coin of that size was called "dollar" by the American colonists, so it makes sense that "dollar" would become the name of the new currency.

 

SOme ancient coins have some whacky names. Some so wacky that they don't roll of the tongue and continue to be sound funny in my head.

First funny names of Roman coins:

The AS: Speaks for itself, a US quarter sized bronze fraction.

The ANTONININUS: Does not roll of the tongue. I call it a "double denarius" A 22mm (ish) silver, silver plated, then silver washed named after Antoninus Pius by modern scholars.

The Sestertius: A large Bronze coin issued by the the Roman emperors, at some point.

The Dupondius: Bronze coin, equal to 2 ASs(?)

Thats just a start the Greeks have many denominations that use a variety of multiples. That will come later

 

Nice Peacock

Here is a photo depicting one of my favorite World coins. :smile
1852 Burma 1 Kyat (Rupee)
11.66 grams of 0.9170 fine silver

 

Check-out the list of denominations in Krause

I’ve got Kwanchas, Kobos, Takas, Euros, & Pounds. I’ve even got some Kroons, Birrs, and a Ouguiya somewhere in my collection. However, I don’t have any examples of the following:

Swaziland Lilangeni

Tajikistan Somoni

Tonga Pa anga

Ukraine Hryvnia

Western Samoa Tala

Does anyone have any coins in these denominations?

 

There's a 'Puffin'.

 

Here is a half Buck from Buck Island.

I have a Vectura from Bermania but can't locate the photos.

 

When I saw this coin it made me think of Cool Hand Luke ... "Kick a buck..."

 

dam not damn but dam

 

"Peso" in Spanish also translates as "weight."

 

I have talas and hryvnias.

 

Sounds like something that should be treated promptly with an antibiotic.

 

To a norwegian the currency of Croatia has an odd name : 1 Kuna consisting of 100 Pula.

The word Kuna is pronunced equaly to the norwegian word " kona " wich meens " the wife ". Nothing wrong about that. The fractional coinage, the pula , though is almost homonymus to a rather indeecend norwegian word descibing what husband and " kona " do to keep up the species. Strange indeed.