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Who created the dollar sign ($)?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxorigin.htm...
or try ask.yahoo.com
Source(s): good luck - Anonymous1 decade ago
Don't know who, but you can bet he was working for the Federal Reserve in the US. It;s those two letters, the U superimposed on the S which makes up the $ sign. Here in Australia, we just use one stroke, rather than two. That's probably why our dollar is only worth 80 cents US.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
There are all kinds of thought on this. Some say it was from the symbol for the Mexican peso of the 1770s and was shared by trade between the US and Mexico. Who knows there are many possibilities.
- 1 decade ago
i think the man who used the dollar bill, have no idea who. check to history of those countries who use $
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