User: why is a ten dollar bill called a sawbuck? ten dollar bills have the nickname sawbuck where did it originate

Weegy: The older versions of the ten dollar bill included the roman numeral for ten, "X", which resembles one of the ends of a real sawbuck, which is a wooden device made with crossed pieces of wood that look like the letter X
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Weegy: Word and Phrase Origins question: Where did the term BUCK as in dollar come from? ... "sawbuck" by the logic of "A sawbuck is ten dollars, so one dollar must be just 'a buck' ...
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