$$$ Why?
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Topic: $$$ Why?
Posted By: erkut
Subject: $$$ Why?
Date Posted: 15-Aug-2006 at 11:40
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Why Americans use $ ass dolar symbol? There is no S in dolar. |
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Posted By: Maziar
Date Posted: 15-Aug-2006 at 16:49
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
The sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico - Mexico in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1770s - 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piastre - piastre . The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1785 - 1785 , it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign. ------------- |