nicknames for some coins
Cam40
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can you name some, ie: frankies=franklin half dollars...
i can think of more than a few for various denoms,
but want you all to name some of them you,ve heard of before.
i can think of more than a few for various denoms,
but want you all to name some of them you,ve heard of before.
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Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
V-nickels for "Liberty Head Nickels"
Buffalo Nickels for "Indian Head Nickels"
Mercury dimes for "Winged Head Liberty Dimes"
hay-penny for all half cents.
cartwheels for "Morgan Dollars"
wheats for "Lincoln Wheat Cents"
memorials for "Lincoln Memorial Cents"
pennies for all one cent denominations.
walkers for "Walking Liberty Half Dollars"
SLQ (pron. ess-el-que) for "Standing Liberty Quarters"
Jeffs for "Jefferson Nickels"
Roosies for "Roosevelt Dimes"
fish scales for "Silver three cent coins"
trimes for "Nickel Three Cent coins"
FE (pron. eff-ee) for "Flying Eagle cents"
indians for "Indian Head Cents"
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<< <i>Well, everyone has heard of two bits for a quarter, although I can't remember what the derivation is, but I've come to nickname the ten dollar bill as "a cup of joe from Starbuck's". >>
Come on, it's not that bad. "Starbucks" is more commonly known as "Fourbucks"
That term comes from the Spanish Milled Dollar or "piece of eight". It took eight reals to make a dollar and each real was called a bit. Sometimes the dollars themselves were cut into 8 bits. So two bits was a quarter dollar, four bits half a dollar. You can learn all kinds of things reading the Red Book
<< <i>Well, everyone has heard of two bits for a quarter, although I can't remember what the derivation is, but I've come to nickname the ten dollar bill as "a cup of joe from Starbuck's". >>
I thought that came from the fact that Spanish money circulated in the colonies because England wouldn't send her money because she had wars to finance. The Spanish dollar was cut into 8 bits and two bits made a quarter dollar. This is also where the term pieces of eight came from.
Edited: Yeah, what Stev32k said!
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mercs
jfks
walkers
And some specific coins have their own nicknames, like the Little Princess (1841 quarter eagle) Orphan Annie (1844 dime), three-legger, and Hot Lips (1888-O Morgan with a DDO).
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drummer boy (bicentennial quarter)
Ike
Joe
"Teddy's Coin" (formerly J-1776, now renamed to something else)
"The Coin" (high grade specimen? 1793 chain cent).
"Bearded Goddess" (1807 O-111b half dollar)
Carwash Carver/Washington Commem
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Some toning nicknames:
tiger toning
marble toning
memmies=memorial reverse penny
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its stand for new orleans gold.
littlejohn
Racketeer Nickels: gold-plated 1883 nickel five cent pieces without the word "cents" below the wreath
Office Boy Reverse: 1820 dimes with repunched and irregularly spaced letters on the reverse, from dies made
by an enfeebled and sometimes inept Robert Scot
Bugs Bunny: 1955 Franklin halves with a die clash or a die chip in the area of Ben's mouth adding buck teeth
"Agony Dollars"
"Carter Quarters"
"JC Pennies" (Jimmy Carter was in the White House at the time)
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buzzard cents = flying eagle cents
little princess = indian head cent
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Or "jailbait" for anything Pamela J Donnely aka pjd1966 sells.
Lots of nifty near darkside nicknames:
loonie for the C D coin
toonie for the two commemorating that new territory I can't spell or pronounce
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."