Show explaining origin of american dollar sign in des temps nouveaux Nou veaux charles prince explains for french readers the origin of the american lollar dollar sign ile he relates that spain in the he fifteenth century when practically ell all the worlds gold was carried to 0 the iberian peninsula from the nines mines of south america designed a coin oln of eight reals value which bore on in one of its faces a representation of if two columns the columns of hercules intertwined by a in the form orm of a letter S bearing the in plus ultra englishmen called ailed these coins millir dollars tak ing ng the word wora dollar from the german oln known as a thiller thaler when the united felted states congress in 1787 decia d to strike a coin known as a dollar alth the same value as the spanish pillar dollar accountants naturally W used as the sign for this new coin the old device of pillars intertwined with a garland which Is so well known today in the form of an S with a double bar exchange |