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>The names of the sides that we have used to be crown/letter (as in epistle - again, have to explain which meaning of the word I'm using), but that's the kingdom money. On post-war money, it was head/letter, because there really was a face (of a worker or whatever, profile) on several coins which circulated in 40's - 80's. Later, with all the inflation, they started churning newer and newer coins, and simplified the design, so there was just a number on the obverse, and the heraldry on the reverse.
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>Most of the coins and banknotes had nicknames. Ten of anything was "bank", because in 1800s, the ten dinar banknote had the building of the national bank of the then kingdom (or dukedom) of Serbia on it. Later, starting with '70s, we had a horse (100 dinars), stiff (or what's the best translation for "mrtvak" - deadman?) in the '80s (500 dinars, with late Tito on it),

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>igeon (1000, with a girl holding a pigeon). However, the 10 dinars with a foundry worker on it

Why do communist couuntries always have pictures of foundry workers all over the place? :-)

had most of the names ever - for most of the people it was still "bank", but it was also referred to as "rag" (the paper got soft really fast), "som" (dunno the names of the fish in English - this is the one with a 'mustache', lives on the bottom of slow rivers),

Catfish?

"monkey" (jumps from hand to hand), and in Slovenia they called it "Juraj", which is their version of Jerry or some such name.

We no longer have nicknames for our coins that we hear often; they last such a short time in your pocket, or get dumped in a jar at the end of the day. We tend just to call it all "shrapnel". The notes some people call £5 - "blue...", £10 -"brown...", £20 - "purple ... drinking voucher"
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