Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Uncle Ben n.1

[rhy. sl.]

(bingo) the number ten.

[UK]Portsmouth Eve. News 23 Nov. 4/4: A man with [...] only £1 or £2 is a ‘case phunt’ or a ‘deuce phunt’. If he has £5 he is a ‘flim’. £10 an ‘Uncle Ben’, and more than that a ‘John Peel’ or a ‘Sarker’.
[UK]M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Ten’ is [...] rarely ‘Cock and Hen’ or ‘Uncle Ben.’.
[UK]Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
[UK]R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.