Where does the dollar sign $$$$$ come from?
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Can someone explain?
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Look at the obv of a Spanish/Mexican pillar 8 Reales
Indeed, the ribbon wrapped around the two 'Pillars of Hercules' on the Spanish "Pillar" Dollar.
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From a combo of the U and S in US
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@BillDugan1959 said: "Indeed, the ribbon wrapped around the two 'Pillars of Hercules' on the Spanish "Pillar" Dollar."
Mr. Bill, That's what I once thought also but we both are incorrect.
That myth probably started over fifty years ago when the Redbook illustrated a Spanish 8R and said something to the effect that it was our first dollar.
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From the pillar as already mentioned.
@crazyhounddog said: "From the pillar as already mentioned."
I guess we are lucky they didn't choose the left pillar for the "sign."
Actually, no one knows for sure where the dollar sign comes from. Every theory is nothing more than an educated guess.
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Other than platinum bullion coins I'm unaware of any circulating US coins with a dollar sign. It does appear on old US paper money though.
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I searched for "ancient symbols on money" and now I'm even more confused.
I cannot ever recall losing sleep over this question. As a matter of fact, doing some serious introspection over the last two minutes, I really do not care....
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The reverses of both the Sackies/Native Americans since 2009 and the Presidential dollars use "$1" instead of spelling out the denomination in words. You may argue whether or not these are circulating, but they are marginally spendable here in flyover America.
Thanks. I forgot about those.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
I spend them on occassion....
Interesting study...thank you for sharing.
As the American colonies evolved, trade between Spanish Americans and English Americans became common. Merchants recording trade transactions wanted to make their lives easier by using an abbreviation for “pesos” rather than writing out the whole word. So they chose a P with a superscript S (ps), which became a P and an S overlapping, which became an S with only the stem of the P. Yup, you guessed it—an S with a line through it
These symbols first appeared in record documents around 1770. So this symbol was around before the United States was even called the United States, a clear nail in the coffin for the “U.S.” theory. However, though the symbol comes from a Spanish coin, it was created by Americans. The English American colonists were the first to use the symbol. Since it was (in a way) already a dollar sign (for the “Spanish dollar”), and since one American dollar originally had the same value as one peso, it would eventually become the sign for the American dollar
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The PS you see on Latin American coinage stands for Potosi, Bolivia which began striking their milled coinage in 1767. If you look closely it is actually an intermingling of PTS.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-origin-of-the-dollar-sign/
I heard somewhere it means Insurance Script...I forget the rest of the story