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A Sickle[1] or Silver-Sickle (SickleSymbol)[2] was the second-most valued coin of the wizarding currency used in Great Britain.[1] Made out of silver, one Sickle was equal to 29 Knuts, and 17 Sickles made up a Galleon.[1]

Around the edge of each Sickle was a series of numerals which represented a serial number referring to the goblin that cast the coin.[3]

Exchange rates[]

1 Sickle 17 Sickles
UK Pound 0.29 4.97
US Dollar 0.59 6.14
Euro 0.43 7.38
Chinese Yuan 4.48 76.09
Australian Dollar 0.67 11.32
Russian Ruble 15.20 258.34
Romanian Lei 1.42 24.15
Bulgarian Lev 0.85 14.45
Japanese Yen 68.55 1165.33
Canadian Dollar 0.63 10.69
Swiss Franc 0.63 12.11
Indonesian Rupiah 5577.47 94817
Indian Rupee 24.39 414.57
Brazilian Real 1.17 19.87
Mexican Peso 6.57 111.64
New Zealand Dollar 0.84 14.32
Swedish Krona 4.08 69.43
Argentinian Peso 1.49 25.34
Danish Kroner 2.67 45.44
Korean Won 786.15 6622.33
Polish Zloty 1.16 19.72

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NB: currency units are not capitalised in Greek, Icelandic, Norwegian, Romanian or Spanish.

  • Albanian: Falçe
  • Bulgarian: сикли (sikli)
  • Catalan: sickles
  • Chinese (Simplified): 西可
  • Chinese (Traditional): 西可
  • Croatian: Srpovi (Sickles), Srp (Sickle)
  • Czech: Srpce
  • Dutch: Sikkels
  • Danish: Sølvsegl
  • Estonian: Sirbid
  • Faroese: Sigdir
  • Finnish: Sirpit
  • French: Mornilles
  • German: Sickel
  • Greek, Modern: δρεπάνια
  • Hebrew: חרמשים
  • Hungarian: sarlók
  • Icelandic: sikkur
  • Irish: Corrán
  • Italian: falci
  • Japanese: シックル (Shikkuru)
  • Latin: Falces
  • Latvian: Sirpji
  • Lithuanian: Sikliai
  • Low Saxon: Sickel
  • Norwegian: sigder
  • Polish: sykle (singular: sykl)
  • Portuguese: Leões (lions - because of the similarity with Galeões (Galleons))
  • Portuguese (Brazil): sicles
  • Romanian: sicli (literal)
  • Russian: сикли
  • Serbian: сикли (sikli)
  • Slovak: sikle
  • Slovenian: srpci
  • Spanish: Sickles
  • Swedish: siklar
  • Ukrainian: серпик (serpyk) (literally "sickle")
  • Welsh: Sicl, plural Siclau

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