Percy's sickle <snipped>

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 150750

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sugaranddixie1" 
<sugaranddixie1 at ...> wrote:
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>       You're right, Angie.  Finding the coin is supposed to bring 
you good luck. Then again, Percy almost broke his tooth on it!  
(Snip:> 
> But I'm curious as to why JKR gave the wizard denominations  the 
names she did.  I've googled the three names- Galleon, Sickle & 
Knut, but haven't been able to deduce anything of significance from 
what I've found. Stiil I can't help wondering why it was Percy who 
JKR had find the coin...
> 

Tonks:
I have never thought about the names of the coins before. Thank you 
for bringing that up. I used the Dictionary.com site and came up 
with this:
Sickle is the cutting mechanism of a reaper. (Like what the Grim 
Reaper carries. So maybe is means something to do with death. Or 
reaping what you sow for Percy.) 

Galleon is A large three-masted sailing ship with a square rig and 
usually two or more decks, used from the 15th to the 17th century 
especially by Spain as a merchant ship or warship.

Knut: king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide 
England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of 
all England (994-1035) [syn: Canute, Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great]

I seached the web for Canute the Great and found some interesting 
information and a picture that I have seen somewhere before. And it 
may have been in connection with the HP books, but I am not sure. 
Here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute_the_Great

He was king and divided the country into 4 parts. I thought of the 4 
houses here, but I don't really think that it means anything. There 
was a coin with his face on it, this might be significant and where 
she got the idea. Since it is the smallest coin it probably means 
that she doesn't think much of him.

Tonks_op