[percyb52]

I was talking to an older gentleman the other night and he remembered and older woman (in her 60's or 70"s) back in the early 1940's calling a dime by another name. This woman was of Irish descent and lived in the Ottawa Valley of Ontario Canada. Does anybody know what she would have called the ten cent coin?

[tickle]

As a kid in the 40s, five cents was heaven, but ten cents was the world. I could buy a lot at the corner store with ten cents. And although I have researched your question, thinking back then I had missed something (not very likely), I can't remember my dad, or anyone else, calling it anything other then a dime. I lived in Toronto back then.

Tick

[redhed35]

I don't know if this helps but an old irish saying for a coin of that value could have been.
1. a copper.
2.tuppence.
3.halfpenny.
4.a half crown.
5.a crown.

I only remember these from listenings to conversations with my parents.

[tickle]

Close, redhed, but no cigar. A half crown was roughly worth 50 cents in England of the l800s; the crown would be have been roughly one dollar. A copper is a penny, tuppence,is (as you can guess by the sound) two pennies.

These aren't irish, they are British coins, as would have been used by the Irish because they didn't have their own coins, and no mint.

A good example of slang is our name for our Canadian one dollar coin which is a 'loonie' (there is a loon on the front); and our two dollars is a 'toonie'. Our mint is considering a coin for the five dollar bill, so it should be interesting when Canadians come up with a slang name for that. May we will call it a 'foonie'.

tickle

[mudweiser]

Deemer possibly?

Sarah