Currency nicknames

[SSOWorld]

The buck, the quid, etc.

list your known nicknames - don't be shy

[The_Ginger]

dough
cash

[jgb191]

Is there really such a thing as a 'Looney' and a 'Tooney'??

[Max Rockatansky]

Bread and Cheddar

[SSOWorld]

Is there really such a thing as a 'Looney' and a 'Tooney'??

yes and yes.

Loonie and Toonie is the proper spelling

there is also such a thing as an Ozzy

[bwana39]

geetus
lucre
dead presidents
Simoleon

[jgb191]

Is there really such a thing as a 'Looney' and a 'Tooney'??

yes and yes.

Loonie and Toonie is the proper spelling

there is also such a thing as an Ozzy

So Loonie is another slang/nickname for a dollar?

[Molandfreak]

"Spot," but it seems like that's only for $5 or $10 bills. Like "that'll set you back a 10 spot."

[hotdogPi]

Is there really such a thing as a 'Looney' and a 'Tooney'??

yes and yes.

Loonie and Toonie is the proper spelling

there is also such a thing as an Ozzy

So Loonie is another slang/nickname for a dollar?

A loonie is a Canadian $1 coin. "5 loonies" would be a stack of five coins, not a $5 bill.

[Rothman]

Now to take a ferry cost a nickel; and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say...

[Brandon]

Is there really such a thing as a 'Looney' and a 'Tooney'??

yes and yes.

Loonie and Toonie is the proper spelling

there is also such a thing as an Ozzy

So Loonie is another slang/nickname for a dollar?

A loonie is a Canadian $1 coin. "5 loonies" would be a stack of five coins, not a $5 bill.

So named because a loon is pictured on the coin.  "Toonie" came about for the $2 coin because of the nickname "loonie" for the $1 coin.

[wxfree]

Clams, smackers, smackeroos, lettuce, cabbage, undressed salad (a pile), bronze-pressed latinum (pennies), Benjis (hundreds), Andys (twenties)

[Dirt Roads]

In most of Appalachia, we still say (disparagingly) "red cent".  'Cauze h'it h'ain't woith no nothin' nary (that's a quadruple negative, if you are counting).

And they started saying "nothing but a red cent" back over 100 years ago, when if you actually found a penny on the ground in Appalachia, you thought you done hit paydirt.  Even in my day, if I ever found five of them I could still cash in on an "R.C. co-cola" in the coke machine at the hardware store.  I still pick 'em up and am thankful for every one of 'em I've found.

[The_Ginger]

In most of Appalachia, we still say (disparagingly) "red cent".  'Cauze h'it h'ain't woith no nothin' nary (that's a quadruple negative, if you are counting).

And they started saying "nothing but a red cent" back over 100 years ago, when if you actually found a penny on the ground in Appalachia, you thought you done hit paydirt.  Even in my day, if I ever found five of them I could still cash in on an "R.C. co-cola" in the coke machine at the hardware store.  I still pick 'em up and am thankful for every one of 'em I've found.

Hmm. I've never actually heard this term being used around these parts. Cool stuff!

[Takumi]

C-note for $100 bills.

[Dirt Roads]

Hmm. I've never actually heard this term being used around these parts. Cool stuff!

Not just Central West Virginia.  The term is still used by older folks all over Appalachia, and in some places the term "red cent" is primarily used as a curse word.  Other folks curse whenever referring to a "red cent".  Pretty much everyone that uses the term "red cent" is expressing some aggravation about their state of poverty (or insolvency, for those that wasted their riches).

My understanding is that after the copper "cent" was first coined in 1792, many of the American citizens started calling it a "red cent" to distinguish it from other "pennies".  But by the 1830s, the term "Red cent" had become a pejorative all over America (the only states west of the Mississippi then were Missouri and that portion of Louisiana).  Like so much of old American culture, the term now only remains in Appalachia.  And that h'ain't worth a "red cent".

[Big John]

Fin - $5 bill
Sawbuck - $10 bill

[Scott5114]

Fin - $5 bill
Sawbuck - $10 bill

I see these on lists like this thread is compiling, but I have never once heard someone use them in a sentence, even when I was working with cash (never had someone give me a $100 bill and ask for "twenty fins" or "ten sawbucks").

[SSOWorld]

Franklin, Grant, Jackson, Hamilton, Lincoln, and Washington

also "Bennie" and Benjamin

What slang is used for non-US/Canada currency? (I've taken to using Quid Cash for UK currency and Euro Cash for the Euro)

I've heard some referring to AUD as Aussie (Ozzie)

[kphoger]

A good friend of mine has a co-worker from Laos whose name is Dolla.  That's because, when he was born, his parents named him after the US currency for good luck—but they didn't know the right way to spell it.

Oh, wait, this is "currency nicknames", not "currency first names".

[wxfree]

Paper Venmo

Printed CashApp

Physical NFTs

Paypal Receipts

[SSOWorld]

Paper Venmo

Printed CashApp

Physical NFTs

Paypal Receipts

Apple Card

oh wait, there is one

[kphoger]

Chamillionaire
50 Cent

Neither one is the guy's real name.

[Dirt Roads]

Mind if I use some bizarre terms for scrip used in coalmines and logging camps for parts of Appalachia?

• clackers (certain coalmines in West Virginia, South-central Kentucky and North-central Tennessee)
• doogaloo (logging camps in the Smokies; this term spread widely to other logging camps and coalmines)
• drag (certain coalmines in North-Central West Virginia)
• flicker (certain coalmines in the Potomac Highlands of Maryland and West Virginia)
• jingle (certain coalmines in East Tennessee)
• lightweights (certain coalmines in the Potomac Highlands of Maryland and West Virginia)
• p'lolly (not certain, but appears to be from certain coalmines in North Carolina)
• slicker (certain coalmines in Southern West Virginia)
• sticker (certain coalmines in Eastern Kentucky)

Anywhoosit, some of the mine operators and logging camp bosses that issued scrip wanted to scare off their employees and families from exchanging scrip for U.S. currency.  That's where the dollar bill got the "toadhide", which were called "toadies" for short.  Some places had different pejorative for the dollar bill such as "frogskins" and "green frogs".  On the flip side, many coalminers waited patiently for a full paycheck to accumulate so as to be paid in U.S. currency (some sources say most coalminers).  This practice was referred to as "growing green".

[interstatefan990]

I listen to too much rap, but usually:

"Band" or "rack" = $1000

"Hundo" = $100 (duh)