Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Rutherford n.

[New Zealand physicist and 1908 Nobel Prize winner, Lord Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937), is featured on the note]

(N.Z. prison) a $100 note.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 157/2: Rutherford n. a $100 note.