So why did he pay cash if he had a pocket full of credit cards?

Maybe I'll bump into the Psychic Tipster and cash in.

The rate at which the exchange was effected was par with a cash bonus of 6%.

We had his cash figured down to pocket change.

The chief sources of the general revenue fund are taxes on real and personal property, on liquors and cigarettes, on corporations and on inheritances; in 1909 the net receipts for this fund were $8,043,257, the disbursements $9,103,301, and the cash balance at the end of the fiscal year $3,428,705.