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Benjie – a name for a USD $100 bill that was sometimes tucked away by touring deadheads for emergency use [7] Bills [6] Bones [6] Bread [6] Buck/bucks [5] C-note - slang for $100 bill (for the Roman numeral C, meaning 100) Cabbage [6] Cheddar; Clams [6] Coin [6] Cream; Chips; Dead presidents [6] Dosh [8] Dough [9] Fiver [9] – £5 note, USD ...
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
Other nicknames include C-note (C being the Roman numeral for 100), century note, or bill (e.g. two bills = $200). Amounts or multiples of $1,000 are sometimes called grand in colloquial speech, abbreviated in written form to G, K, or k (from kilo; e.g. $10k = $10,000).
The $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations were last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, making the $100 bill the largest denomination banknote in circulation. A $1 note was added in 1963 to replace the $1 Silver Certificate after that type of currency had been discontinued. Since United States Notes were discontinued in 1971 ...
We come in contact with it all the time, but the markings on the one-dollar bill remain shrouded in mystery. Until now. 1. The Creature. In the upper-right corner of the bill, above the left of ...
The United States ten-dollar bill (US$10) is a denomination of U.S. currency.The obverse of the bill features the portrait of Alexander Hamilton, who served as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, two renditions of the torch of the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), and the words "We the People" from the original engrossed preamble of the United States Constitution.
Other subsequent versions were produced in 1878, 1880 and 1891. In 1913, a large-size version of the bill was issued as a Federal Reserve Note. In 1882, the note was issued as a gold certificate. In 1928 the treasury began to issued small-size bills and the $1,000 denomination featured US President Grover Cleveland. The small-size was issued in ...
These initial bills were referred to as “large-size legal tender bills.” Today, one of these can fetch a price of more than $75,000, according to a high-grade 2018 example sold via Heritage ...