The first poem written in western literature about the coins:

Lauritic owls will never leave you,
but will dwell with in and will nest in
your purses and hatch out small change.

                            - ARISTOPHANES (448-385 BCE)
                        in 'BIRDS'

Tetradrachm of Athens c.450 BCE.
(These coins were called Lauritic owls because the silver to make these coins came from mines of Laurion ouside Athens)

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Bowed money: A bent coin, given as a pledge of love came from:

" Taking forth a bowed groat and an old penny bowed he gave it (sic) her".
                            -- Coney catching (Time, Elizabeth)

Groat
Queen Elizabeth I
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The traditional English poetic advice to the bride:

"Something old,
Something new,
Something borrowed,
 Something blue,
And a sixpence in her shoe.

Six pence
Queen Elizabeth II

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"Money makes the world to go" might have originated from an old poem

Money will make the mare to go

" 'Will you lend me your mare to go a mile?'
'No, she is lame leaping over a stile.'
'But if you will her to me spare,
You shall have money for your mare.'
'Oh, ho! say you so?
Money will make the mare to go.'"

-- Old Glee and Catches

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