How did dollars come to be called "bucks?"?!
Question:
How did dollars come to be called "bucks?"?
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3 days ago
lol, not Buk's!
Answers:
because the paper had a different feel, much like parchment, which is made of animal skins, like goat or deer - buckskin, then later just bucks. without researching i feel it's quite possible that the earliest "paper" money was actually made of parchment.