I know it is a tangent but "coinage and dollarage" (Nice one Saranita)reminded me.
A tourist used to 1p,5p and 10p coins was paying $10.47 and trying to read the coins for correct change. The clerk tried to help by asking for "a quarter, a dime, a nickle and two pennies." This only confused him further until someone else said, "A moose, a beaver, a sailboat and two brown ones."
(for non-Canucks those are the designs on the back of our coins)