Percy's sickle <snipped>

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 150752


> 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

zgirnius:
My observation about the coin names is that they are all alliterative 
with the name of the metal of which they are made. The lowest 
denomination, the Knut, is a copper coin. The next coin, the Sickle, 
is silver; Galleons, the most valuable, are made of gold.