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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;josemartins, post: 137307, member: 3381&quot;]The 2$50 coin doesn&#039;t worth more than a few dollars, the CN coins only worth something in UNC/BU.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the $ sign, we&#039;ve used since the XVI century (D. Manuel I) for bookkeeping (example: 2$000 = two thousand reais), but we&#039;re pretty sure Portuguese don&#039;t came up with that and the $ sign its an older symbol.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don&#039;t mind using a online translator here&#039;s a link to the discussion in the Portuguese numismatic forum:</p><p><a href="http://www.forum-numismatica.com/viewtopic.php?t=856" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forum-numismatica.com/viewtopic.php?t=856" rel="nofollow">http://www.forum-numismatica.com/viewtopic.php?t=856</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Be warn, some theories are a bit sarcastic...</p><p><br /></p><p>And it can happen that the $&nbsp; have a few completely different origins or was simply used trough several moments in time to fit certain uses (as monetary symbol insted of the example above), we humans tend to use symbols we find interesting in anything (to replace words), if more people like those &quot;signs&quot; or &quot;symbols&quot;, they could became widespread and in this case the $ sign is definitely a &quot;hit&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Jose[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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