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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John14, post: 1596747, member: 41136&quot;]&quot;A common theory holds that it derives from the Spanish coat of arms engraved on the colonial silver coins, the <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real">reals</a>, (among them the Spanish dollar) that were in circulation in Spain&#039;s colonies in America and Asia. Reals and Spanish dollars were also legal tender in the English colonies in North America, which later became part of the United States and Canada&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This goes through all&nbsp; the current theories:</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Also there is this &quot;$&quot; symbol, and the one with 2 vertical lines. I&#039;ve always drawn this symbol with 2 vertical lines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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