List of alternative names for currency

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See also: Slang terms for money

This is a list of alternative names for currency. A currency refers to money in any form when in actual use or circulation as a medium of exchange, especially circulating banknotes and coins.[1][2] A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.[3]

Alternative names for currency

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  • Aussie – Australian dollar[4]
  • Bank [5]
  • Benjamins [5]
  • Benjie – a name for a USD $100 bill that was sometimes tucked away by touring deadheads for emergency use[6]
  • Bills [5]
  • Bones [5]
  • Bread [5]
  • Buck/bucks [4]
  • C-note
  • Cabbage [5]
  • Clams [5]
  • Coin [5]
  • Dead presidents [5]
  • Dough [7]
  • Fiver [7] – £5 note, USD $5 bill
  • Grand [7] – £1,000, USD $1,000
  • Greenbacks [8][4]
  • Gs[7] – Increments of USD $1,000
  • Jackson [7] – USD $20 bill
  • Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand[4]
  • Large [7] – £1,000, USD $1,000
  • Lettuce [7]
Reverse side of a loonie
  • Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar,[4] because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side[9]
  • Loot
  • Moolah [7]
  • Quid - Pound sterling
  • Sawbuck [7]
  • Scratch [7]
  • Singles
  • Smackers
  • Soft money – a colloquial term for paper currency in the United States[8]
  • Spot – such as "five spot",[7] "ten spot",[7] etc.
  • Tenner [7] – £10 note, USD $10 bill
  • Toonie – Canadian two dollar coin
  • Two bits
  • Wad

See also

References

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