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From: stevemac@bud.indirect.com (Pascal MacProgrammer)
Subject: The origin of "$", the dollar sign?
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Not so very long ago, mrrosa@eden.rutgers.edu (Mark Rosa) said...

>The $ sign originated
>from a corruption of PS, meaning peso. At first they wrote ps clearly
>but later the letters became superimposed to create $.

  That makes sense, since the first dollars used as money in America were 
minted in Spain.  I've seen pictures of some old colonial and early US 
documents that specified amounts of money in "Spanish milled dollars".

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