Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a $100 bill.

1963		Little Walter ‘Dead Presidents’ 🎵 A hundred dollar Franklin is really sweet, / A five hundred McKinley is the one for me, / If I get a Cleveland, I’m, really set / A thousand dollar Cleveland is hard to get.
1965		W. King ‘The Game’ in King Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 303: He was a booster downtown [...]. Could steal ten-twelve vines in one go round. Sometimes he’d let me cop a V or a Benny for nothing. [Ibid.] 304: Let me cop a Benny Franklin until my whore brings me some dough.
1990		J. Wambaugh Golden Orange (1991) 108: Buster, still staring at the pile of money, said, ‘That’s a lot of Ben Franklins.’ [Ibid.] 109: Let’s just let him tuck his Franklins back in the safe.
1991		B. Hamper Rivethead (1992) 44: Rummaging through my drawer for a fresh set of skivvies, and there would be a couple of $100 bills I’d forgotten about. Howdy Mr. Franklin.
1997		Puff Daddy [song title] It’s All About the Benjamins.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 Benjamin n 1. a $100 bill. 2. any money.
2000		R. Antoni Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 101: We would soon be using President Franklins to wipe we culos and light we cigars and not none of that coconut nastiness! [Ibid.] 109: A half-naked soldier chasing a baby baboo [...] waving a Franklin in the air behind him calling cutchie-cutchie-cutchie!
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 21: ‘Dead presidents’, ‘Franklins’ [...] all mean paper money.
2009		www.netbooknews.com 🌐 The website of the Smartbook AG is ranked around position 700k on Alexa.com [...] Noone even in Germany knew them before, so it seems that at the end of the day it will be all about the benjamins.
2011		F. Bill ‘Hill Clan Cross’ in Crimes in Southern Indiana [ebook] Reached in and dug through the bundles of bills, all Benjamins.
2012		M. McBride Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] Foyle tossed a bundle of $100 bills into the front seat [...] He pitched another stack of Franklins up front.
2012		Chief Keef ‘Halleujah’ 🎵 I love when me and Ben Franklin be spending some time / Walk in the mall buy all the stores.
2020		D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 56: Brown took out a roll of crisp Benjamins.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 85: I’m staring Benjamin Franklin hisself in the fucking face? Take the damn money!