How did dollar $ got its symbol?

How did Dollar $ got its symbol?

The United States of America (USA) is considered to be one of the strongest economies of the world ever imagined how its currency emerged to be the strongest one in the world.

We will explain about the history of the US dollar and how the symbol got into existence the history of the dollar is a story involving many countries in different continents the word dollar is much older than the American unit of currency it is an anglicized form of Tyler pronounced dollar with a long a the name given to coins first minted in 1519 from locally mined silver in jerk Jim Stahl in Bohemia today. 


The town of Joakim star lies within the borders of the Czech Republic and it's Czech name is Yakima Tala is a shortened form of the term by which the coin was originally known the achoms Tala later on the English version of the name dollar was also applied to similar coins.

Now let's come to how the symbol is derived the dollar symbol with two strokes this theory was endorsed by the american libertarian philosopher and staunch defender of capitalism mine Rand in her novel Atlas Shrugged the plot a cement mark theory adherents of this theory also believe that the source of the dollar sign is to be found in the Spanish peso but they would attribute it specifically to coins minted in pata see which was as mentioned above the world's richest source of silver the mint mark of the Potter sement evolved to become a monogrammed PT si with all those letters completely superimposed so that the symbol looked like an S wrapped around the T the resemblance to the dollar sign can be seen from the images of the Potter c-pillar dollars the mint mark is near the date.

The slavery theory there have been claims that the dollar symbol dollar is derived from the words for slave and nail in Spanish or in Latin according to one version of this theory that gives an earlier date for the invention of the symbol the shackles worn by slaves could be locked by a nail which was passed through the rings or loops at the ends of the shackle and bent while it was still hot and malleable the Spanish for slave is s clavo and for nail is clavo therefore the S with a nail dollar or s clavo equals s clavo or slave slaves constituted a store of wealth and as a result the abbreviation for slaves that slave owners used in their account books came to represent money!

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