- Greenback
Greenback may refer to:
* A term used for theUnited States dollar .
* A modern (since 1914) United StatesFederal Reserve Note .
* AUnited States Note , (U.S. Note) among the first national United States currencies, authorized by theLegal Tender Act of 1862 , and issued for more than a century, until 1971. This was the first greenback and was government-issued currency, different from the central-bank paper currency (Federal Reserve Note) that the United States began to use in 1914, and exclusively now uses. The two types of notes had similar green-inked backs, but the later Federal Reserve note was distinguised from the older U.S. Note by an green rather than red treasury seal on the obverse side of the note.*
United States Greenback Party , an American political party that was active between 1874 and 1884 which advocated government-issued currency.
*Save the Greenback , U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing employees, and paper and ink suppliers, opposed to phasing out the paper dollar
*Greenback, Tennessee , a city in Loudon County, Tennessee, United States
*Celestion G-12 , guitar cabinet loudspeakers
*Greenback cutthroat trout , ("Oncorhynchus clarki stomias"), the easternmost subspecies of cutthroat trout
* an alternate name for theBar jack , or "Caranx ruber"
* a surname
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