Darkside Lingo (tm)

Dentuck

Let's compile a Darkside Lingo list.... I'll start.

angel, noun - English successor to the gold noble. Initially valued at 6 shillings 8 pence. Issued from 1470 to 1634.

MyWorldCoinTypeSet

fishscale, noun - A Canadian 5 cent silver piece

Gazza

<< <i>Let's compile a Darkside Lingo list.... I'll start.

angel, noun - English successor to the gold noble. Initially valued at 6 shillings 8 pence. Issued from 1470 to 1634. >>



Half a dollar, slang - English Halfcrown
A Bob, slang - English One shilling, Two bob, 10 bob etc
Two and a kick, slang - English Halfcrown
Tanner, slang - English Sixpence piece
Quid, singular and plural, slang - English One pound
Thrupenny bit (also possibly joey) noun, slang - English three pence piece. Also used as rhyming slang for female breasts

TwoKopeiki

Pieces of Eight - Name of Spanish Colonial 8Reale coin, which refers to a practice of physically cutting this coin into 8 bits worth 12.5 cents each by early U.S. colonists. This practice also gives origin to the name “two bits” for U.S. 25 cents, which is used to this day.

shirohniichan

Grayside (alt. greyside), adj.: Canadian

Clankeye

Sower -- slang for French coins which show Liberty walking. Mostly used for 1 or two Franc coins.

cdmead

<< <i>fishscale, noun - A Canadian 5 cent silver piece >>



It's also used to describe wire money issued by Russian Czar Ivan (the Terrible) in the 16th Century.

My favorite coin nickname is Groat, an English 4 Pence coin pre 1970 where 3 Groats = 1 Shilling and 60 Groats = 240 Pence = 20 Shillings = 1 Pound

theboz11

BBL, A form of art on coins highlighted by Bare Breasted Ladies on one or both sides of the coin or medal.

AuldFartte

FARSIDE - Token and medal collectors

ajaan

Loonie - Canadian $1 coin

Twonie - Canadian $2 coin

Clankeye

Loonie -- when ajaan is the only poster to a thread.

Twonie -- when he is joined by Aethelred.

AuldFartte

<< <i>Loonie -- when ajaan is the only poster to a thread.

Twonie -- when he is joined by Aethelred.


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Dentuck

"Winnie or Liz?" - vernacular, a phrase uttered while flipping a Churchill crown, akin to "Heads or tails?"

Bertie flipped the crown into the air. "Loser buys the next round of Guinness," he chirped. "Call it, Jeeves -- Winnie or Liz?"

ajaan

<< <i>Loonie -- when ajaan is the only poster to a thread.

Twonie -- when he is joined by Aethelred.
>>

Clankeye

Awwww, Don. You know I don't mean it.

Apology Coin -- coin given by Darksider when contrite for bad behavior.

ajaan

I know you said it with affection Carl, wait . . . I don't mean it that way, I meant, oh nevermind . . .

Clankeye

Gone Yeti-- phrase frequentley applied to LordMarcovan and others who disappear from the forum for lengths of time.

Sapyx

Just to confuse things a little:

Wire Money:
(1) In the Russian series, silver coins from the mid-1600's, so called because the blanks used to make them were cut from pieces of silver wire.

(2) In the British series, a nickname given to the Maundy coins of 1792, so called because the denomination numerals were written in an unusually thin style.

(3) A term sometimes applied to the silver larin, a "primitive money" of the Indian Ocean, more normally called "fish hook money" or "hairpin money". Its form is a long piece of silver wire, doubled over and normally bent into a hook shape.

(4) (verb) A term used in the United States to describe the sending of funds by certain forms of electronic transfer.

Proclamation Coins
(1) In the Spanish and Spanish Colonial series, coin-like medals issued to commemorate or "proclaim" significant events (such as royal coronations or revolutions), in the days before newspapers. Such pieces were often made to the same specifications as the circulating coinage of the day, and frequently entered circulation. Some are listed in the Krause Standard Catalog, but most are not.

(2) In the Australian series, foreign coinage listed in a "proclamation" by the New South Wales Governor in 1800, recognising them as legal tender and assigning them values in sterling. Just about any darkside coin which was commonly used in international trade during the period 1780-1800 can probably qualify as a "proclamation coin", though the items actually appearing on the list can command quite a premium from Australian collectors.

ColinCMR

specie: a metal coin, and a good way of teaching biology students that the word 'species' is always pluralized

pyx: the box used to house coins waiting to be assayed and verified for weight and content after the first strikes are produced

yap: form of 'primitive' money used on Polynesian islands, often made as a stone wheel of vastly varried sizes

ColinCMR

Danegeld: a land tax levied in Anglo-Saxon England to raise funds for protection against Danish invaders (Oxford Dictionary) and also, I believe, a term later designated to the money paid to the Danes to not invade and raid England

Dentuck

The Queen up front, with a bear behind - design description of the Canadian toonie

satootoko

Chop or chopping, noun or verb - The mark incused into a silver (and occasionaly gold) coin by a merchant to certify its bullion value, or the act of stamping it. Generally found on silver crown/dollar-sized coins circulating in Asia during the 19th and early 20th Centuries.

AuldFartte

Rooster Nickname for the French gold 20 Franc coins featuring a rooster on the reverse.

Dentuck

cartwheel - noun. Nickname for the hefty 1797 copper twopence of Great Britain. 40.64 mm, 56.8 grams.

1jester

"to pull a Lordmarcovan" or "to go Lordmarcovan" means to wait ages to ship a package. This method has been known to be employed by Aethelred from time to time.

Dentuck

turtle - noun. The ancient silver stater of Aegina, so called for its bold main device of a sea turtle.


"Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle, turtle, turtle!"
-- Pistachio Disguisey, 2002

tbirde56

Junk: 'coins' sold by Chinese 'entrepreneurs', all assumed to be counterfeits.

Junk Box: container at coin shows for cheap treasure hunting.

British denominations and their slang terms

Dentuck

proba - noun. A Polish pattern coin.

kielbasa - noun. A Polish sausage.

TwoKopeiki

Novodel (from Russian: made anew) - term refers to restrikes of early coin issues made for collectors by the Russian Mints from 1738 to 1890

Dentuck

vahingoittunut - adjective. "Damaged" in Finnish.

"Is this 100-kroner note vaerdifuld?"
"It would be if it weren't vahingoittunut."
"Aha. I thought that mark was a vaarentamisen ehkaisykeino."

Clankeye

Quadriga: a two-wheeled chariot drawn by four horses harnessed abreast. Picutred on the reverse of the Italian 2 lire coins at the start of the 20th century.

Dentuck

"Death to Huerta" peso - a 1914 coin with a political theme, struck to emphasize Francisco "Pancho" Villa's hatred of Mexican politician Victoriano Huerta.

satootoko

<< <i>Junk: 'coins' sold by Chinese 'entrepreneurs', all assumed to be counterfeits.

Junk Box: container at coin shows for cheap treasure hunting. >>



Junk Dollar - 1930s Republic of China silver yuan/dollar coins depicting a Chinese Junk; also the 1949 restrikes struck by the US Mint for Taiwan

lordmarcovan

Watchit, O Dead King... I think the Jester's onto us!