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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 ...
All variations of the $100 bill would carry the same portrait of Benjamin Franklin, same border design on the obverse, and the same reverse with a vignette of Independence Hall. The $100 bill was issued as a Federal Reserve Note with a green seal and serial numbers and as a Gold Certificate with a golden seal and serial numbers.
Sawbuck is a slang term for a ten-dollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral X and its resemblance to the carpentry implement. Double sawbuck is slang term for a twenty-dollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral XX. One hundred dollar bills are sometimes called "Benjamins" (in reference to their portrait of Benjamin Franklin) or C ...
The $50 bill is sometimes called a yardstick, or a grant, after President Ulysses S. Grant. The $100 bill is called Benjamin, Benji, Ben, or Franklin, referring to its portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Other nicknames include C-note (C being the Roman numeral for 100), century note, or bill (e.g. two bills = $200).
Franklin was an advocate of free speech from an early age. When his brother was jailed for three weeks in 1722 for publishing material unflattering to the governor , young Franklin took over the newspaper and had Mrs. Dogood proclaim, quoting Cato's Letters , "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as ...
"Ben Franklin", a song by Snail Mail from Valentine; Benjamin Franklin ($100), a nickname for the United States one hundred-dollar bill; Ben Franklin (company), a variety-store chain; Ben Franklin, Texas, an unincorporated community in Delta County; Benjamin Franklin Bridge, between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey
Benjamin Franklin (born October 16, 1982) is an American small business owner and Republican politician from De Pere, Wisconsin. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly , representing Wisconsin's 88th Assembly district since 2025.
The Committee of Five, pictured on an 1869 U.S. Postal Service 24-cent stamp; the same image also appears on the present two-dollar bill. The draft document as adopted was then referred back to the Committee of Five to prepare a "fair copy", this being the redrafted-as-corrected document prepared for delivery to the broadside printer, John ...