Show explaining origin of american dollar sip sign in des temps nouveaux Kou Nou veaux charles prince explains for F rench french readers the origin of the american dollar sign dign lie he relates that spain in the fifteenth century when practically tl nil all the worlds gold was carried to the iberian peninsula from the e mines of south america designed a coin of eight reals peals value which bore on one of its faces a representation 0 two to columns the columns of hercules intertwined hy bi a in tho the form of a letter S bearing tha the inscription plus ultra englishmen called these coins pillar dollars taking the word dollar from the german col coin q knoon ha a thaler 11 When ahe the united states cog congress iress ln in 1787 de decided eld to strike a coin known as a dollar with the camil same value as the spa spanish i nish pillar dollar accountants naturally used as the sign for this new cots cola tho old device of pillars inter intertwine twilled with a garland which Is so well known know today in the form of tin an S with a double bar exchange x bange |