Re: Symbol for money.

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From: Alt
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 01:14

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John Jordan wrote:

> Alt ?alt@card.kyiv.net? dijo a todos por la internet:
>
> OK, in all the brouhaha over the silly $ symbol, no one has mentioned
> the one thing I want to know. I don't care if it advertises the U.S.
> dollar or how nationalistic it is. What I do want to know is what is
> its origin.
>
> Someone told me once that it started as a capital U with a capital S
> overlaid, representing "US." Over time the U became just two vertical
> lines. But I'm not sure if that's really the origin. Mexico, for
> example, uses it for their peso, and several other countries use it
> too. I think the Mexican peso existed before the U.S. was a separate
> nation.
>

I don't know.

All I know that
"Dollar" starts from Nederland's (Dutch) "Daller".
But it does not explain why Dollar is "S".
By the way, why Pound is "L"
"Pound", as my friend told me, starts from "pound of Sterlings"
Sterlings was a Danish money, when England became dependent by
DenMark they was sending them "pounds of sterlings" like tax.
May be "ster-" means dobled line, and "-ling" is the letter "L".

...I do not trust in version about US.
In such case they would use it in other places.

> It's just an idle curiosity of mine. I'll live even if no one knows
> the answer.
>
> NOTICE: I don't publish my e-mail address. Post in the
> newsgroup only.

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From: Alt <alt@card.kyiv.net>
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Subject: Re: Symbol for money.
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