'Buck' not meaning $1 (was: non-monetary "buck")

[Damien Hall]

FWIW, one realtor I have recently dealt with (in South Philadelphia), talking
abut possible price-ranges for property I might want to buy, said that I would
be looking for something worth 'in the range of a hundred bucks', by which he
meant $100,000.  I heard it from him only once, and other realtors I dealt with
in the same geographical area didn't use the phrase:  they would just state a
price in full.  I suppose this 'a hundred bucks' for $100,000 could either be
simple elision of the word 'thousand', as implied because it was obvious in the
context, or another meaning for the word 'buck', in the specific professional
vernacular of people who regularly deal in large amounts of money like this;
as I say, though, I did only hear it once.

Damien Hall
University of Pennsylvania