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  • Grand in itself supposedly comes from the nickname for the old $1,000 USD bill.

    It had GRover ClevelAND on the front and the word grand obviously also supports the imagery of a high denomination bill.

    Anyway, just wondered about the G thing because I'm seeing more and more people use it in the UK.

  • (I don't have much going on in the office at the moment, so apologies...)

    Cleveland appeared on the $1,000 bill between 1928 and 1934

    The first mention of "grand" to mean 1,000 (usually dollars) was in 1915

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