What is a "BO" dollar.

Yes indeed

 

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I only knew Bo & Luke Duke. Never heard the term Bo Dollar outside of Hazzard County.

 

I was told by a friend who is Mississippi native that a Beau, Bo or Bow (I'm not sure of the spelling) dollar is a term used for the Confedrate coin. This is a term that his great-grandfather who was born into slavery used. After researching on Google I found that Confederate half dollars were the largest denomination of coin minted.

 

Three year old thread but I guess it's worth a second look....... Welcome to the forum NorCalGal.

 

Could it be a dollar touch by the guy on the episode of Seinfeld who caused Jerry's car to smell bad and Elaine's hair to have the BO aroma?

 

"Brilliant Over-circulated" ;-)

 

WOW ! Ken, that is one radical Morgan, hope you won it as a door prize.

 

It's a reference to Bo Derick. The "10" that's been faking it for the last 30 years just like the U.S dollar.

 

Definition I knew too. Not heard it in decades though. Possibly a beau because of the New Orleans French quarter influence?

 

It is a silver dollar and it was a term used primarily among older black men, but there's more to it than that. It was short for "bottom dollar." A guy would get hold of a silver dollar and keep it more or less forever. You were never totally broke as long as you still had your bottom dollar, your bo dollar.

I'm 70 years old, and only ever knew of the term among old men when I was quite young, so it has to date from the 1930's or even earlier.

 

this one:

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https://www.facebook.com/bo.dollar.7

 

I worked in a Mississippi sawmill in the 1960's. Heard the term used by older blacks mainly. Some whites of the back woods variety, too. Meant a "solid", or a silver dollar.

 

I was born in cali 1962 and in my teens we used bo dollars so it is a silver dollar use to win a lot of then in reno