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["He spends nickels as if they were pennies."]

> Officially, the US dollar symbol has two vertical bars (it's derived from
> overprinting U and S, with the curve of the U deleted). The Australian dollar
> sign has only one vertical bar (to distinguish it from the US dollar sign). It
> is amusing to note that most computer displays use the Australian dollar sign.

So far as I know, there's no historical evidence for the old theory
that the dollarsign is derived from U-backspace-S.  The single-line $
is common in the U.S., so Australians would be unwise to rely on the
distinction.

Say, what's the symbol for rasbuckniks?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
UU: ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
CS: colonel@buffalo-cs
BI: csdsicher@sunyabva