M ost people encounter the dollar sign on a daily basis: in stores, on websites, in the media and more. The symbol also serves as shorthand, referring to money, wealth, capitalism ...

This symbol first showed up in the 1770s, ... namely as an abbreviation for the Spanish peso “p”. So how do you get from a “p” to the dollar sign, “$”?

The Spanish currency at that time was known as the 'peso silver coin ... This symbol became popular, and by the 1770s it had evolved into the current peso symbol '$', ...

An interesting fact: Seventeen out of the 20 most traded currencies in the world have a strike in their symbol, the remaining three do not have a proper symbol. Even Bitcoin has two partial ...

The krona was adopted as Sweden's official currency in 1873. Sweden kept things simple by using "kr" as the currency's symbol. The original krona was worth 1/2480 kilograms of pure gold. ...