where does the dollar sing - $ - come from?
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First:   $  That is a dollar SIGN, not a dollar SING.\nSecond: I haven't known any dollars that sing.
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$84,688.34\n\n$1 USD = 118.10 ¥en
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You can perform currency conversions at:\n\nhttp://www.xe.com/ucc/\n\n1 US dollar = 7.94620 Swedish Kronors
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Over a year ago while Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada, there was a meeting.  This meeting took place at the Bush's Ranch in Texas along with Bush and Mexican President.  One of the topics was a North American dollar much like the Euro dollar.  This for all intensive purposes is in process.  When it will hit us, it is hard to tell.   But if Bush is in the White House, it probably be pushed before he leaves.  The Canadian dollar in the mid 1960's did have a greater value over USA dollars and there was no bickering like it is today.  Exchange rate levels may have a contributing factor in the promotion of a common currency. Our governments are famous at letting us know what is taking place several months after the fact.
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The only answer is the sea coast.\n\nSand dollars are found worldwide, and occur on both coasts of the lower 48 states as well as Hawaii.
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Currency is money. It means how much money is worth.
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Two hundred Dollars, US.\n\nor\n\nTwo hundred US Dollars.
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Correct!  You make perfect sense.\n\nBut if you make perfect cents you'll be arrested by the government for forging currency.
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because the dollar is more stable than their own currency
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They use euros now. It would be worth about a dollar.
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you cant. thats why its called a sacagewia dollar
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I don't know, but I know what is greater than god, what rhymes with orange, and where the other dollar went.\n\nMaybe some of these people know.\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoclgkS1HktFEs2SLYLtaoYjzKIX?qid=20060821154042AAsV2bz\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApB4NoULKJPv_c4BISIwVpUjzKIX?qid=20060811134408AARLZkf\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag88BdP1h9lITSPAi8YDh4AjzKIX?qid=1006041611802\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aizsx1hgrMqvhz9tbPuNsEIjzKIX?qid=20060825164415AAJWUy2\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApQ0l8J8.xB5vkF5.vFS_KsjzKIX?qid=20060722052816AAbMFPU\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkbB8.VN4op47EpOzaes5UQjzKIX?qid=1006032107844\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aq33ONPoMvMbun.yFId0oEkjzKIX?qid=1006042425914\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhyryTihy1jBul7AG8j6fgEjzKIX?qid=1006012620872\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Arqn5ZTyaKWj3WzR7wboMeojzKIX?qid=1006011202888\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ap3PJ0WszarVUmcap8Vg7vEjzKIX?qid=20060813200908AAnqaqj\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An1wzBRDduFBmyp.BDeCWCQjzKIX?qid=1006040818438\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ao4rNLiPVAzoqQgIUK2u1ssjzKIX?qid=1006031103740\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhSG0tAd0ZjaPExf9SxxUQkjzKIX?qid=1006040108864\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AlcA.9_OnDeZMcIW7x4Pg.4jzKIX?qid=20060911160516AASK6kZ\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmyCiOHsHvH1ku0jBR3YxlUjzKIX?qid=20060628231238AAiWz6U\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoi.c3dAx9zW8U4LQPPE2JEjzKIX?qid=20060616180125AAvNKTn\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmqMxXnrOkMlYpN1Vc9IXAwjzKIX?qid=1006040310353\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApW1ZbaNhDq90npoSzAnXNkjzKIX?qid=20061023032754AAlFjvS\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiEtYfYwf_vLbqv7wEtPVZAjzKIX?qid=20061031132405AAoinmy\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An3KoJgue4YbPSuviXb6iAsjzKIX?qid=1006012702627\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As_jCpUVf0fQZbI0m6jVHu0jzKIX?qid=20060714175655AAkV5ZL\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Alyg4XdtZN1Fgrpk7oNWUWojzKIX?qid=20060902201926AAvDW4F\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjKH9VcgDwYwtsIL5m5zIm8jzKIX?qid=20060917102726AAQ6BIp\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnGVlCFMwPR_ZW6Ee0sT2EYjzKIX?qid=20061001113851AAYOfXw\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ak.UBSRjlgri6x2EZoM6.fQjzKIX?qid=1006052318763\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvRUqw8oYiX.qC35sWrXJV0jzKIX?qid=20061027091041AAh31DX\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgLMilgKNcRsXrqmsi9APCcjzKIX?qid=1006033028773\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AgyArbukxAdqs_rrxC5QAlgjzKIX?qid=1006052409787\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjryLsGlnIYaxzGhB0g.hIQjzKIX?qid=1006042309777\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Atee7zDSNi53HYuTwvGd1uIjzKIX?qid=1005121103085\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsSB9VfhfPyVIFNwJeRuOAojzKIX?qid=20060924185828AARoBwB\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Akr7uA3VROmVJkKT0noTphIjzKIX?qid=20060927145312AA1ndKz\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApD.5jNrjBY_hP6qxUN.x5sjzKIX?qid=20061031065205AA1afek\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkZxTkLGHTPuUkJ4QtjeC5QjzKIX?qid=1006041014669\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnUsYy_SsCbi9IuDCEQk9f8jzKIX?qid=1006012704082\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ahdfv9gyqgQThnMdeQxa.FQjzKIX?qid=20060727202558AACNOFU\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjIzjTgSb4vLIHq7E4eoDawjzKIX?qid=20061003084712AADxBph\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhW3Yf7g4npIIozpKl72f1wjzKIX?qid=20060828125726AAHcdPu\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AskAQELK4KNHCexVka61JGcjz
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Actually, they are referred to as "euros" without the "dollars."  \n\nUse Yahoo search, "currency translation."  You should get a number of hits; pick one.  Make sure you are entering the euros and the U.S. Dollars in the correct field.\n\nThis may not be exact for two reasons: (1) this may or may not be the translation rate for small tranactions; very large transactions (typically $3,000,000 or more) receive a different translation rate, but it should be relattively correct and (2) rates of exchange change from day to day, if not more frequently.\n\nTry to think of it this way (these amounts are just made up).  If the rate of translation of euros into USD is 1.254 that means the euros are "more valuable."  For one euro you can get USD 1.254.  Since one euro buys you more than one USD, the euros are more valuable.
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a single yen is a small enough amount of money that a fraction of a yen wouldn't make any sense and therefore doesn't make any cents.  Regaring your other statement, the world is full of all kinds of currency that is basically worthless.  I used to live in a place where we would hire dump trucks to hall the money over to pay the electric bill for our company.
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money in general but us dollar specifically .\n****************************\nThe sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre. The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.\n\nThe sign's ultimate origins are not certain. The most widely accepted explanation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is that "$" is a corruption of the letters "PS" or "PS" (for 'peso' or 'piastre' - especially the former, as each letter could represent each syllable of "Pe-So") written over each other in Spanish. Eventually, the 'P' was reduced to a vertical line.\n\nAnother possibility is that it derives from the British notation 8/ for eight shilling, referring to the Spanish 8 reales coin ("piece of eight"), which later became the USA dollar. Others derive it from the Portuguese Cifrão sign &#92;mathrm{S}&#92;!&#92;!&#92;!&#92;Vert.\nStill another explanation holds that the dollar sign is derived from (or at least inspired by) the mint mark on Spanish colonial silver coins ("real" or "piece of eight") that were minted in Potosí (in present day Bolivia). The mint mark was composed of the letters "PTSI" superimposed on one another, and bears an undeniable resemblance to the single-stroke dollar sign (see picture). The Potosí mine is generally accepted as having been the largest single silver strike in history, and silver coins minted in Potosí would have been in common use in colonial America.\n\nEarliest usage wrote the sign with a single vertical stroke. For some time, the double-stroke symbol &#92;mathrm{S}&#92;!&#92;!&#92;!&#92;Vert was common, but is now again falling out of use\n*******************************\nIt is sometimes said that the dollar sign's origin is a narrow\n"U" superimposed over a wide "S", "U.S." being short for "United\nStates."  This is wrong, and the correct explanation also tells why\nthe $ sign is used both for dollars and for pesos in various\ncountries.  The explanation is not widely known, maybe because not\nmany people would think to look for it in a book called A History\nof Mathematical Notations, Volume II: Notations Mainly in Higher\nMathematics by Florian Cajori (published in 1929 and reprinted in\n1952, by Open Court Press).  Cajori acknowledges the "U.S." theory\nand a number of others, but, after examining many 18th-century\nmanuscripts, finds that there is simply no evidence to support those\ntheories.\n\n   Spanish pesos were also called piastres, Spanish dollars, and\npieces of eight.  (The piece of eight was so called because its\nvalue was eight reales.  Some countries made one-real coins by\nslicing pieces of eight into eight sectors; the still-current U.S.\nslang "two bits" for a quarter of a dollar may refer to this,\nalthough "bit" denoting any small coin -- as in "threepenny bit" --\nwas already in use.)  The coins were circulated in many parts of the\nworld, much as U.S. dollars are today.  The coins were so well known\nthat, when the U.S. got around to issuing its own silver coinage\n(U.S. dollar coins first appeared in 1794), it simply replicated the\nSpanish unit's weight and hence value, and even one of its names; so\nit was natural to use the same symbol.\n\n   Since three of the four names given above for the Spanish dollar\nstart with p (and pluralize with s), it was natural for\nabbreviations like p and ps to be used.  Sometimes ps was written\n    s\nas P  -- P with a superscript s.  The superscript was a common way\nof rendering abbreviated endings of words -- we see vestiges of it\ntoday in the way some people write "10th".  Now,
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The origin seems to be unknown - and be aware of the fact, that in earlier days it was a 1 dollar coin.\n(see link)
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Hey Ryan.  I'm a banker so this I know.  $1 dollar bills come from the Federal Reserve in $100 straps.  Every bank and every teller are different in the amount that they keep.  I used to keep in $50 straps.  So, just go to your bank and ask the teller.  They will let you know.  They aren't all new.  You can ask that as well and most tellers will allow you to get them in straps.