As the video explains, the exact origin of the term isn't 100% clear, but strong evidence suggests that people started calling dollars "bucks" in the 1700s likely thanks to deer; specifically, with the trading of deerskins. Deerskins were commonly used as a form of currency at the time.
Buck is an informal reference to $1 that may trace its origins to the American colonial period when deerskins (buckskins) were commonly traded for goods. The buck also refers to the U.S. dollar as a currency that can be used both domestically and internationally
. The definition of a buck is slang for a dollar, or an adult male animal, often with antlers.
The use of "grand" to refer to money dates from the early 1900s and as disconcerting as it may be to some people, comes from America's underworld. ... But in the early 1900s one thousand dollars was considered to be a "grand" sum of money, and the underground adopted "grand" as a code word for one thousand dollars.
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