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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taylor101, post: 1125474, member: 29758&quot;]Many suggestions have been&nbsp; made about the origin of the dollar symbol $, one&nbsp; of the commonest&nbsp; being that it derives from the figure 8, representing the&nbsp; Spanish&nbsp; &#039;piece of eight&#039;. However, it actually comes from a handwritten&nbsp; &#039;ps&#039;,&nbsp; an abbreviation for &#039;peso&#039; in old Spanish-American books. The $&nbsp; symbol&nbsp; first occurs in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans&nbsp;&nbsp; who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to&nbsp; appear in&nbsp; print after 1800.</p><p>&nbsp;The word &#039;dollar&#039; itself derives from the Flemish or Low German word&nbsp; <i>daler</i> (in German <i>taler</i> or <i>thaler</i>), short for&nbsp; <i>Joachimstaler</i>,&nbsp; referring to a coin from the silver mines of Joachimstal,&nbsp; in Bohemia&nbsp; (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic). The term was later applied to a&nbsp; coin used in the Spanish-American colonies and also in the British North&nbsp; American colonies at the time of the American War of Independence. It&nbsp; was adopted as the name of the US currency unit in the late 18th&nbsp; century.<a href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/91" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/91" rel="nofollow">http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/91</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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