century note slang , also: century spot

He searched a pocket and came up with one lone century note.

Always a century note.

(This apparently comes from a 17th century note by Benjamin Ayloffe, mentioned below.)

This assumption is supported by 19th century notes from Georgi Rakovski and other scholars, but by no direct evidence or contemporary source.

One bill with a fat one-zero-zero on it and it was like the days back in the Garden when they used to pay off in brand-new century notes.

The name is due to a fifteenth century note at the beginning of the book, and hence it has been attributed by Tommasi and Mabillon to Narbonne, which was in the Visigothic Kingdom.

In any case, among scholars whose careers fall in the first half of the sixteenth century note should be made of Sinaneddin Yusuf, mentioned above; of Molla Pir Ahmad Celebi b.

He shook money out of it, selected a few bills from the bunch, stuffed the rest back, dropped the wallet on the floor and let it lie, arranged five century notes like a light poker hand and put them under the base of the fan on the table.

The early eighteenth century notes of Thomas Prince describe an incident of June 18, 1621 when the first duel (with a sword and dagger) was fought in New England between two servants of Stephen Hopkins, Edward Doty and Edward Leister.