> > Does anyone say "fiver" for $5 or "tenner" for $10 in the USA, or is it only a British thing?
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> I've never heard it said in either Minnesota or Cali when I've lived in either. I'm thinking it's British, though it might be an east coast thing or something.

I've heard a dollar bill called an "ace," but to most Americans it's a "buck."
A five can be a "fin," a "fiver," or a "five spot."
A ten is a "ten-spot" or a "sawbuck," or is that the 20?
A fifty is a "Benny."
A hundred is a "C-note," and they don't make $1000 bills anymore but a thousand bucks is a "grand." We have a lot of names for our coins too. A cent is called a "penny" and a quarter is "two-bits," but you won't find those words on either one.

Yes, they used to make a one grand note, but it made life too easy for the drug dealers and they quit. I used to know a rich guy who always carried one in his wallet, just because he could.

In those days, a grand and a couple of C-notes would buy a new car, but the guy with the grand in his wallet drove a 1941 Cadillac, which probably cost him about three grand. He wouldn't have been caught dead in a $1200 car.
Howard