("Buck" as in a male deer, even though we call a dollar a "buck.)
May 15 edit: If you want to know why a dollar is called a buck anyway, apparently a "buck" once meant one high quality deerskin, often used in trades between Europeans and Native North Americans. Lower-quality ones sometimes required multiple to add up to the value of one full buck.
Source: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/dollar-called-buck/
May 15 edit: If you want to know why a dollar is called a buck anyway, apparently a "buck" once meant one high quality deerskin, often used in trades between Europeans and Native North Americans. Lower-quality ones sometimes required multiple to add up to the value of one full buck.
Source: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/03/dollar-called-buck/
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