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. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money (monetary units) in common use, especially in a nation.
Alternative names for currency
English Currency (Cockney Rhyming Slang)
Source:
- Generic Term: "bread" from "Bread & Honey" for "Money"
- ã5: "Lady Godiva" or "fiver"
- ã10: "cockle" from "Cock & Hen" or "tenner"
- ã1000: "bag" from "Bag of Sand" for "grand"
Other
- Aussie â Australian dollar
- Bank
- Benjamins
- Benjie â a name for a USD $100 bill that was sometimes tucked away by touring deadheads for emergency use
- Bills
- Bones
- Bread
- Buck/bucks
- C-note - slang for $100 bill (for the Roman numeral C, meaning 100)
- Cabbage
- Cheddar
- Clams
- Coin
- Cream
- Chips
- Dead presidents
- Dosh
- Dough
- Fiver â ã5 note, USD $5 bill
- Grand â ã1,000, USD $1,000
- Greenbacks
- Green Stuff
- Gs â Increments of USD $1,000
- Jackson â USD $20 bill
- Kiwi â slang term for the currency of New Zealand
- Large â ã1,000, USD $1,000
- Lettuce
- Loonie â refers to the Canadian dollar, because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side
- Loot
- Moolah
- P â money, pennies
- Perak â Indonesian rupiah for coin, derivative from silver.
- Quid â Pound sterling
- Racks â large sums of money, 10 of these make one stack
- Rocks â coins
- Sawbuck
- Scratch
- Singles
- Smackers
- Soft money â a colloquial term for paper currency in the United States
- Spot â such as "five spot", "ten spot", etc.
- Stacks - large sums of money, 10 racks
- Tenner â ã10 note, USD $10 bill
- Toonie â Canadian two dollar coin
- Two bits
- Wad
- Wonga â British slang
- Conto â Brazilian Real
- Pau â Brazilian Real
- Pila â Brazilian Real
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