List of alternative names for currency

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.

English Currency (Cockney Rhyming Slang)

 * Generic Term: "bread" from "Bread & Honey" for "Money"
 * £5: "Lady Godiva" or "fiver"
 * £10: "cockle" from "Cock & Hen" or "tenner"
 * £1000: "bag" from "Bag of Sand" for "grand"

Other

 * Aussie – Australian dollar
 * Bank
 * Benjamins
 * Benjie – 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 – £5 note, USD $5 bill
 * Grand – £1,000, USD $1,000
 * Greenbacks
 * Green Stuff
 * Gs – Increments of USD $1,000
 * Jackson – USD $20 bill
 * Kiwi – slang term for the currency of New Zealand
 * Large – £1,000, USD $1,000
 * Lettuce
 * Loonie – refers to the Canadian dollar, because the Canadian dollar coin has an image of the common loon on its reverse side
 * Loot
 * Moolah
 * P – money, pennies
 * Perak – Indonesian rupiah for coin, derivative from silver.
 * Quid – Pound sterling
 * Racks – large sums of money, 10 of these make one stack
 * Rocks – coins
 * Sawbuck
 * Scratch
 * Singles
 * Smackers
 * Soft money – a colloquial term for paper currency in the United States
 * Spot – such as "five spot", "ten spot", etc.
 * Stacks - large sums of money, 10 racks
 * Tenner – £10 note, USD $10 bill
 * Toonie – Canadian two dollar coin
 * Two bits
 * Wad
 * Wonga – British slang
 * Conto – Brazilian Real
 * Pau – Brazilian Real
 * Pila – Brazilian Real