Show the dollar kiark 10 writers aro are not agreed as to tho the derivation of this elga sign in 11 represent the word dollar or dollars 11 somo some contend that it comes from tho the letters U and S which after the adoption of the federal constitution were prefixed to the currency of the now united states and which after aften wards in the hurry of writing were run into each other the U being mado made first and the S over it others say that the contraction Is from the spanish pesos apesos dollars others still claim it to bo be derived from the R word f fuortes meaning hard so called to designate sliver silver and gold from paper or soft money the ile more plausible explanation of the puzzle is this ahat hat it Is a modification of the figure 8 and that the character ts rs we muke make it denotes that wo are speaking or writing of a sum of money equal to eight reals or ae as the dollar WM wes formerly called a of eight in the early history ol 01 tho the dollar when everybody knew it as a of eight writer writers who had occasion to mention it in their articles did so by making this character the two as 8 and the double hyphen gradually ovo until it camo came out as |