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	Dollar sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dollar sign is a symbol primarily used to indicate a unit of currency.
		The sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre.
		The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dollar_sign (1010 words)

	Dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name "Spanish dollar" was used for a Spanish coin, the peso, worth eight reals (hence the nickname "pieces of eight"), which was widely circulated during the 18th century in the Spanish colonies in the New World.
		Spanish dollars were in circulation in the Thirteen Colonies that became the United States, and were legal tender in Virginia.
		Coins known as dollars were also in use in Scotland during the 17th century, and there is a claim that the use of the English word, and perhaps even the use of the coin, began at the University of St Andrews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dollar (603 words)

	United States dollar article - United States dollar currency United States Federal Reserve dollar sign 4217 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Today, like the currency of most nations, the dollar is fiat money without intrinsic value, which means that it has no backing and would be entirely worthless but for the fact that people have been persuaded to use and accept it as if it had worth.
		The dollar is also used as the standard unit of currency in international markets for commodities such as gold and oil.
		The name for the United States dollar comes from the Spanish dollar (which itself derived from the thaler) which was the silver coin widely circulated in the United States during the time of the American Revolutionary War.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/US_dollar (3450 words)

	Dollar sign
		Dollar or thaler is is short for "Joachimsthaler" which was a term used for Joachimsthal, a mining town where the coins were first made in the sixteenth century in Bohemia.
		The dollar mark may have just been sitting in the wings waiting to leap out because in 1776, Ezra l'Hommedieu, a member of the New York Provencial Assembly had over a dozen different symbols in his diary beginning with a single vertical bar and proceeding to two vertical bars.
		I stil see many early documents with dollars and cents without a decimal point to seperate them, and Cajori gives a citation of a 1810 newspaper where the amount "One dollar and twelve cents" is written $1 12 with the 12 set apart rather than seperated with a decimal.
	www.pballew.net /dollar.html (1179 words)

	AUE: FAQ excerpt: Origin of the dollar sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		It is sometimes said that the dollar sign's origin is a narrow "U" superimposed over a wide "S", "U.S." being short for "United States." This is wrong, and the correct explanation also tells why the $ sign is used both for dollars and for pesos in various countries.
		Cajori reproduces 14 $ signs from a diary written in 1776; 11 of them have the single stroke, which was the more common form to the end of the century, and 3 have the double stroke.
		Although the $ sign originally referred to a Spanish coin, it was the revolting British -> American colonists who made the transition from ps to the new sign.
	www.alt-usage-english.org /excerpts/fxorigin.html (457 words)

	The Straight Dope: What does the S in the dollar sign represent?
		These were represented in the dollar sign by the two vertical lines, with the S being some sort of scroll wrapped around them.
		Professor Cajori contends that the dollar sign is an abbreviation for "pesos." Bear in mind that the Spanish dollar, also known as the peso de 8 reales, was the principal coin in circulation in the U.S. up until 1794, when we began minting our own dollars.
		The dollar sign and the PS abbreviation were used interchangeably from around 1775 until the end of the century, after which the latter faded from view.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_178.html (580 words)

	Dollar Sign Money Clip at Feng Shui Bestbuy
		Signs and symbols are mostly indicators or pointers.
		Signs and symbols are used and shared in order for us to communicate and construct an archetype of the ambiguous and the abstract.
		Therefore, the dollar sign symbol undoubtedly is the universal symbol of constructing wealth luck and opportunities when used appropriately.
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	THE DOLLAR SIGN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The use of the dollar sign was continued by Congressman Robert Morris to whom Pollock addressed his billing records.
		Later, in 1797, the dollar sign appeared in print for the first time, in a book by Chauncey Lee, "The American Accomptant." That officially established the dollar sign as an American symbol.
		The fact is that the dollar sign was born when Spanish and Yankee traders encountered each other in the Southwest.
	www.chime-o-wind.com /dollar.htm (413 words)

	Where did the dollar sign come from?
		Americans then began trading with "Spanish milled dollars," later termed "dollars," as Americans shed the "pounds" that were the vestiges of British rule.
		Congressman Robert Morris, to whom Pollock addressed his billing records, perpetuated the use of the dollar sign, and was the first high government official to give his blessing to the "s" with the two lines through it.
		The appearance of the dollar sign in print, in a 1797 book by Chauncey Lee, signified the acceptance of the dollar as a purely American symbol, much as is the bald eagle.
	coolquiz.grab.com /trivia/explain/docs/dollar.asp (326 words)

	Articles - $ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The dollar sign is sometimes written with two vertical strokes.
		On one type of thaler, one side showed the crucified Christ, and the other side showed a serpent hanging from a cross, and near the serpent´s head the letters NU, and on the other side of the cross the number 21.
		The change properly denotes the difference between actual money which was used in the past and the modern fiat currency tender "dollars" currently in use.
	www.solidvacuums.com /articles/$ (1083 words)

	Ask the Editors: Dollar Sign
		During the American Revolution, Pollock bought supplies for the army, sending billing records to Robert Morris, a member of the Continental Congress and the primary financier of the American Revolution.
		The word "dollar" came from one of the most common currencies in circulation in the colonies, the Spanish milled dollar, also called "a piece of eight." In 1767 Maryland began issuing paper money in one dollar denominations.
		The term dollar was continued after the war.
	www.infoplease.com /askeds/5-11-01askeds.html (201 words)

	Dollar Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Warhol began to paint images of dollar bills in the early 1960s, producing canvases arrayed with endless grids of bank notes.
		Returning to the subject in the 1980s, he isolated the dollar sign and replicated that symbol in paintings and prints interpreted in a sketchy, improvisational style.
		Warhol's Dollar Signs are direct and wry reminders that, by the 80s, paintings had themselves become consumer items and metaphors for money, a phenomenon that he readily accepted.
	www.chrysler.org /warhol/DollarSign.html (210 words)

	Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader)
		Origin of the dollar sign (notes by Mark Brader)
		The explanation is not widely known, maybe because not many people would think to look for it in a book called _A History of Mathematical Notations, Volume II: Notations Mainly in Higher Mathematics_ by Florian Cajori (published in 1929 and reprinted in 1952, by Open Court Press).
		The superscript was a common way of rendering abbreviated endings of words -- we see vestiges of it today in the way some people write "10th".
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	Detailed descriptions of the characters [The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire]
		Notice that the copyright sign (©), appearing as C in a circle, is a separate symbol.
		In the 1960s, the international currency sign ¤ was substituted for the dollar sign $ in one internationalized version of ASCII (ISO 646).
		The dollar sign was restored later however, and it seems that nobody actually used the currency sign for anything.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/latin1/3.html (7316 words)

	Coin Dollar Sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
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		A boom in gold and silver may be a sign that this country is finally going to pay for years of easy money, mounting debt and trillion-dollar budget deficits.
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	Andy Warhol Dollar Sign information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Andy Warhol, Dollar Sign, 1981, © AWF : The Andy Warhol Museum is a vital forum in which diverse audiences of artists, scholars and general public are galvanized through creative interaction...
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	Liberty Silver Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Associates educate, evangelize, and support the Liberty Dollar by using the new currency in everyday transactions.
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	Dollar Sign issues - Dev Shed
		Discuss Dollar Sign issues in the PHP Development forum on Dev Shed.
		Dollar Sign issues PHP Development forum discussing coding practices, tips on PHP, and other PHP-related topics.
		So what is the actual code you're using, because that code you gave will not add a slash before the dollar sign.
	forums.devshed.com /php-development-5/dollar-sign-issues-268620.html (531 words)

	What Is A Dollar Sign?
		We don't even have a dollar sign on our computer keyboards.
		The reason we don't see the dollar sign is because we don't have dollars anymore.
		We have worthless pieces of paper with ink on them and fake coins, which are backed by thin air and the people's belief in the bankers.
	autarchic.tripod.com /files/dollarsign.html (655 words)

	Dollar sign Stock Illustration. 529 Dollar sign clip art illustrations available to search from over 15 royalty free ...
		529 Dollar sign clip art illustrations available to search from over 15 royalty free clipart and stock art vendors.
		Business person standing beside building with dollar sign...
		Man balancing on globe, holding pole with dollar signs on...
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	This Is Broken - Dollar store sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		I think more or less is the catch phrase for the store, that the prices are all around a dollar, while the fresh flowers are completly unrelated and more or less a completly diffrent sign.
		Does not appear to be a painted sign - too uniform, and the fonts are precise.
		The pink color of the lines is probably due to the lower cost of using only two colors in the sign, and is not meant to link the 2nd line to the 3rd.
	www.thisisbroken.com /b/2005/04/dollar_store_si.html (1406 words)

	dollar sign doesn't work - Dev Shed
		Discuss dollar sign doesn't work in the ColdFusion Development forum on Dev Shed.
		and cfselect, the price value in the list box has 4 zeros after the decimal point and no dollar sign at the beginning.
		Depending on what database you are using, you should also be able to get the value formatted with a dollar sign right from the database.
	forums.devshed.com /coldfusion-development-84/dollar-sign-doesn-t-work-150914.html (366 words)

	eBay - silver dollar sign, Necklaces Pendants, Men's Jewelry items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Bling Bling Dollar Sign Sterling Silver Ring, SZ 8
		Bling Bling Dollar Sign Sterling Silver Ring, SZ 9
		Mens Silver Plated Hip Hop Dollar Sign Pendant Chain
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	Gold Dollar Sign by Donna Dolezal Zelzer (Image) in
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		Gold 3-D dollar sign suitable for use in promotional materials.
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	RIA Novosti - Russia - Russia, China sign multibillion-dollar contracts during Putin's visit
		Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Minister for Civil Affairs Li Xueju signed intergovernmental agreements on cooperation in emergencies prevention and relief.
		Utility giant Unified Energy Systems signed an electricity export contact with China's State Grid Corporation, while state-owned oil major Rosneft and natural gas monopoly Gazprom signed agreements on supplies and joint ventures with the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation.
		The St. Petersburg city government signed agreements with China's Eximbank and with the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation, which is financing a massive development project in Russia's second city.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20060321/44610251.html (334 words)

	PHPBuilder.com - What Does A Double Dollar Sign Mean?
		Can anyone tell me what a "double dollar sign" or a "double scalar" means?
		Below is a snippet of code (one of the variables has a "double dollar sign") that I have been trying to figure out:
		I think that it (the "double dollar sign") assigns the value of one variable to another variable - but I'm not sure.
	www.phpbuilder.com /board/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=10251598 (149 words)

	AskOxford: What is the origin of the dollar sign ($)?
		Many suggestions have been made about the origin of the dollar symbol $, one of the commonest being that it derives from the figure 8, representing the Spanish 'piece of eight'.
		The $ symbol first occurs in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans who had business dealing with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to appear in print after 1800.
		The name 'dollar', however, derives from the Dutch or Low German word daler (in German taler or thaler) - originally Joachimstaler, referring to a coin from the silver mines of Joachimstal, in Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic), which opened in 1516.
	www.askoxford.com /asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/dollarsign (277 words)

	Dollar Sign Stress Ball at Quality Logo Products
		Our Dollar Sign Stress Balls are all made by hand.
		Most importantly, the purpose of the Dollar Sign Stress Ball is to relieve stress and have fun!
		Use this dollar symbol for your next promotion.
	www.qualitylogoproducts.com /stress-balls/dollar-stress-reliever.htm (204 words)

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