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the only friend who never texts back but always shows up.
means Money in the physical form of coins and banknotes, or more broadly, immediately available funds.
from From French 'caisse' (money box), itself from Italian 'cassa', going back to Latin 'capsa', a case or chest — the same root that gives us 'case' and 'capsule'. So 'cash' was originally the box you kept the money in before it became the money itself; the container quietly became the contents. (A separate word 'cash', meaning a small coin once used in India and China, comes from a different source entirely — Tamil 'kacu' — and is just a coincidental twin.)
- smell trigger
- that money smell is mostly grime and sweat oils
- average age
- a U.S. dollar bill lasts about 6 years
- cocaine traces
- most circulating bills carry detectable drug residue
- linen, not paper
- U.S. notes are 75% cotton, 25% linen
- vanishing act
- some nations are going fully cashless by design
us dollar — official currency of the united states, 330+ million people
euro — currency of 20 eurozone countries, 343 million users
chinese yuan — currency of china, 1.4 billion people
indian rupee — currency of india, 1.4 billion people