Editing Federal Reserve Note (section)

==Nicknames==
U.S. paper currency has had many nicknames and slang terms. The notes themselves are generally referred to as ''bills'' (as in "[[United States five-dollar bill|five-dollar bill]]"). Notes can be referred to by the first or last name of the person on the portrait ([[George Washington|George]] for one dollar, or even more popularly, "[[Benjamin Franklin|Benjamins]]" for [[United States one hundred-dollar bill|$100 notes]]).

* [[Greenback (money)|Greenback]]s, any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note (from the green ink used on the back). The [[Demand Note]]s issued in 1861 had green-inked backs, and the Federal Reserve Note of 1914 copied this pattern.
* ''Buck'' for a one-dollar bill.
* ''Fin'' is a slang term for a five-dollar bill, from Yiddish "finf" meaning five.
* ''[[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-Notes'' (the letter "C" is the [[Roman numeral]] 100).
* ''Dead presidents'', referring to the portraits that feature on the front of each bill.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead%20presidents#h1| title = Dead presidents Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster}} </ref> (This colloquialism is partially incorrect; neither [[Alexander Hamilton]] nor [[Benjamin Franklin]], who appear on the ten-dollar and one hundred-dollar bills respectively, ever served as president of the United States.)