# English speaking Dopers: "Banknotes" or "Bills"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-speaking-dopers-banknotes-or-bills/226816>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 30, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-speaking-dopers-banknotes-or-bills/226816 "2004-01-30T20:11:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-speaking-dopers-banknotes-or-bills/226816/21 "2004-02-01T11:52:21Z")

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> Aside from that, our terminology is very dull. When we decimalised in 1966, we lost all the wonderful slang terms for the different denominations. Occasionally, you’ll hear somebody call a $20 note a redback, but that’s about the extent of it.

I dunno. I call the $100 note a “Baron Von Greenback” because of the guy on the front.

[http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/hundred\_dollar.html](http://www.rba.gov.au/CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/hundred_dollar.html)

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**Author:** ![MattTheCroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MattTheCroc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MattTheCroc)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2004, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/english-speaking-dopers-banknotes-or-bills/226816/22 "2004-02-01T11:54:02Z")

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Or, rather, the back, as that site helpfully pointed out to me after I’d already gone and posted the message.

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