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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 2019290, member: 19065&quot;]From<b> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&amp;lpg=PA1182&amp;ots=2zeSU6ifva&amp;dq=Cassell's%20slang%20dictionary%20what%20is%20a%20red%20cent&amp;pg=PA1182#v=onepage&amp;q=Cassell's%20slang%20dictionary%20what%20is%20a%20red%20cent&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&amp;lpg=PA1182&amp;ots=2zeSU6ifva&amp;dq=Cassell's%20slang%20dictionary%20what%20is%20a%20red%20cent&amp;pg=PA1182#v=onepage&amp;q=Cassell's%20slang%20dictionary%20what%20is%20a%20red%20cent&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">Cassell&#039;s Dictionary of Slang</a></b> by Jonathon Green, pg. 1182.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #b30000"><b>red cent</b> n. (also blue cent, red copper, red penny, white quarter) [mid-19C+] (US) a trivial amount of money, usu. in phr. <i>not a/one red cent</i>, absolutely nothing of (cf. CENT n.) [the copper colour of a cent; the blue cent may refer to the blue cardboard ration tokens issued in US during WW2 as payment for processed foods (meat tokens were red)]&nbsp; </span></p><p><br /></p><p>* <a href="http://www.opa-tokens.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.opa-tokens.com/" rel="nofollow"><b>OPA Rations tokens</b></a> (red and blue)</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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