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er… lets do a better answer: Though some believe that the term buck for an American dollar originated from the use of silver dollars for bucks ‘markers used in poker,’ others believe that the term buck ‘dollar’ originated due to the fact th...
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This token was called a buck, since it was commonly a ... Curiously, "sawbuck," a ten-dollar bill, appears to be only indirectly related to buck. It got its name because some old ten-spots were denominated with Roman numeral Xs. The Xs looked like the X-shaped arms of the benches sawyers used to hold up logs for cutting.
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On the American frontier in the late 1700s and early 1800s, buckskins were used for trading instead of paper money. So in 1748, while in Indian territory on a visit to Ohio, Conrad Weiser wrote in his journal, "He has been robbed of th...
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A sawbuck is typically another name for a sawhorse; in particular one which, at each end, has a crossed pair of legs. It is also slang for a ten-dollar bill as older versions of this particular bill incorporated "X", which is the ...
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"Sawbuck" is sometimes abbreviated "saw," but not, of course "buck." ... A dollar bill can be called a "rutabaga," for some reason and in Rutabaga Tales, Carl Sandburg frequently uses the term "cash moneys." "Cash" referring to coins and paper money comes from French, Italian, and Latin, with roots referring to a money box...
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