Nickname for "pound" ?

Anybody to know how is Pound(Money) named on street ? the slang name ;-)



"Quid" = "Pound"

So when I first heard it, I didn’t know how much is that .. and it took me literately a month to figure out the real meaning .. I couldn’t check the meaning on the web, coz I just misspelled it. Now, my English teacher gave me the spelling ... so here I am writing you about this !

a bit of explanation I had found here :
http://www.businessballs.com/moneyslanghistory.htm

quid = one pound (£1) or a number of pounds sterling. Plural uses singular form, eg., 'Fifteen quid is all I want for it..', or 'I won five hundred quid on the horses yesterday..'. The slang money expression 'quid' seems first to have appeared in late 1600's England, derived from Latin (quid meaning 'what', as in 'quid pro quo' - 'something for something else'). Other intriguing possible origins/influences include a suggested connection with the highly secretive Quidhampton banknote paper-mill, and the term quid as applied (ack D Murray) to chewing tobacco......