What the Buck?
New York’s most popular animal is the White-ailed deer. Each year, More than 500,000 deer hunters contribute nearly $1.5 billion to New York State’s economy.
Surly you’ve said “Ill bet you five bucks if….
In the 1700’s hunting deer was such a common part of life, deer skins or whole deer were used as money. A deer was worth a dollar, hence, the dollar became known for what it was worth: “a buck” One of the earliest known uses of the term is a trade record from 1748 that details the exchange rate for a cask of whiskey as “5 bucks,” or deeskins. Forty-four years before the first US dollar was minted. Not surprisingly “buck: stuck around well after the dollar was first introduced with the Coinage Act, which passed in 1792, establishing the dollar as the US’s standard currency.
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Fast forward about 100 years and the new bills circulated by the U.S. government starting in the 1860s came to be known as greenbacks because their back sides were printed in green ink.
This ink was an anti-counterfeiting measure used to prevent photographic knockoffs, since the cameras of the time could only take pictures in black and white.
Taking history, security, finance, and creativity into account Green Buck was born
Our Story
Growing up on Long Island, New York—where “The Sound” is a place, not a noise, and beconeggandcheese is practically one word—is its own kind of upbringing. Life here has a rhythm and set of quirks that don’t exist anywhere else. Most getaways fall into one of two categories: heading down to Florida or going “upstate,” which, of course, means anywhere north of White Plains. And if you’re in the upstate crowd, chances are you’ve either learned to hunt—or grown up around someone who has.
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