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Ben Franklin
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en US slang en Benjamin Franklin
en 2003 August Ercille Christmas Thoughts of a Proud American: An Ode to “Joe and Josephine Ordinary, Salt of the Earth Americans” Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire w:AuthorHouse 2006 606 https://books.google.com/books?id=nWykOE4xV1gC&pg=PA606 1-4259-4971-1 OK, Lord I am staying, so please open that umbrella, or better yet rain down some Abraham Lincolns and some Ben Franklins on me. I cannot name any higher denomination of money – never been privileged to see anything over a $100 bill.
en 2004 Peter Plate 1 Fogtown: A Novel New York, N.Y. w:Seven Stories Press 6 https://archive.org/details/fogtownnovel00plat/page/6/mode/1up 1-58322-639-7 Placing Ben Franklins in the box, she lost count of how much was in it after two hundred thousand dollars.
en Douglas J. McGregor Roadtrip 41 Bloomington, Ind. w:iUniverse 2022 978-1-6632-3694-4 Not counting the loose change jiggling in my pocket, (and it sounded like a lot of pennies to me), I only had one Ben Franklin, two Ulysses S. Grants, a crinkly Andrew Jackson that someone had drawn an ink moustache on, two Lincolns and two Washingtons.
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