shinplaster

He dug in his pocket and produced a one dollar shinplaster.

The shinplaster could only be used in the Reynolds Bros.

He laid out a shinplaster; one of the pieces of paper money printed during the late war.

Heres a shinplaster for you.

In Canada, the term shinplaster was widely used for 25-cent paper monetary notes which circulated in the 19th century and early 20th century.

According to Merriam-Webster, Shinplaster referred to a small, square piece of paper that could be used as plaster to treat sore legs.

The town grew; however currency, both notes and coins, were so short in early Burketown that the business people issued their own currency, dubbed "shinplaster" or "calabashers".

Then the book quotes the New York Tribune of December 3, 1845: "The people may whistle for protection, and put up with what shinplaster rags they can get."

A book roughly contemporary with the term, John Russell Bartlett's The Dictionary of Americanisms, defines a shinplaster as "A cant term for a bank-note, or any paper money."