Sickle

Sickle
Purpose	Wizarding currency
Book information
First appearance	Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Last appearance	Quidditch Through the Ages

"Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it’s easy enough."

— Rubeus Hagrid to Harry Potter

The Sickle is a silver coin with the second highest value in wizarding currency. There are seventeen Sickles to a Galleon.

History

When he worked for the Beast Division where he was a "lowly" employee, Newton Scamander only earned two Sickles a week.

In the Apothecary's, there are silver dragon livers on sale for sixteen Sickles an ounce.

When Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley travelled on the Hogwarts Express for the first time, they bought everything on the food trolley for eleven Sickles and seven Knuts.

For the Christmas feast at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, pieces of Sickles are put into the pudding.

It is eleven Sickles to go any distance on the Knight Bus. A hot chocolate is thirteen Sickles and a hot wager bottle and toothbrush is seventeen Sickles.

During the 422nd Quidditch World Cup, Fred and George Weasley bet forty-two Galleons, fifteen Sickles and three Knuts that Ireland would win but Viktor Krum would catch the Snitch.