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dollar sign
The dollar sign or peso sign ($ or 16px) is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various peso and dollar units of currency around the world. The symbol can interchangeably have one or two vertical strokes. Note that while the two-stroked version is visually identical to the cifrão, it is not the same symbol.
== Origin ==
The sign is first attested in British, American, Canadian, Mexican and other Spanish American business correspondence in the 1770s, referring to the Spanish American peso,〔Lawrence Kinnaird (July 1976). ("The Western Fringe of Revolution" ), ''The Western Historical Quarterly'' 7(3), 259.〕 also known as "Spanish dollar" or "piece of eight" in British North America, which provided the model for the currency that the United States adopted in 1792 and the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics such as the Mexican peso, Peruvian eight-real and Bolivian eight-sol coins.
The best documented explanation holds that the sign evolved out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "pˢ" for pesos. A study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century manuscripts shows that the ''s'' gradually came to be written over the ''p'', developing into a close equivalent to the "$" mark.〔Florian Cajori (()1993). ''(A History of Mathematical Notations )'' (Vol. 2), 15–29.〕〔Arthur S. Aiton and Benjamin W. Wheeler (May 1931). ("The First American Mint" ), ''The Hispanic American Historical Review'' 11(2), 198 and note 2 on 198.〕〔Riesco Terrero, Ángel (1983). ''Diccionario de abreviaturas hispanas de los siglos XIII al XVIII: Con un apendice de expresiones y formulas juridico-diplomaticas de uso corriente''. Salamanca: Imprenta Varona, 350. ISBN 84-300-9090-8〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= 'What is the origin of the $ sign?' in FAQ Library )〕 A variation, though less plausible, of this hypothesis derives the sign from a combination of the Greek character "psi" (ψ) and "S".〔''(Note On Our Dollar Sign. Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Oct., 1939), p. 57 )''〕
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