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The curious origins of the dollar symbol
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1195" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190528-the-curious-origin-of-the-symbol" target="_blank"><strong>The curious origins of the dollar symbol - BBC</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Despite its ubiquity, the origins of the dollar sign remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins, the Pillars of Hercules and harried merchants. </strong></p><p></p><p>The dollar sign is among the world’s most potent symbols, emblematic of far more than US currency.</p><p></p><p>It’s shorthand for the American dream and all the consumerism and commodification that comes with it, signifying at once sunny aspiration, splashy greed and rampant capitalism. It’s been co-opted by pop culture (think Ke$ha when she first started out, or any number of fast-fashion t-shirts) and borrowed by artists (Salvador Dali fashioned a moustache from it, Andy Warhol rendered it in acrylic and silkscreen, creating an iconic body of work that itself now sells for $$$).</p><p></p><p>It’s used widely in computer coding and it provides <a href="https://emojipedia.org/money-mouth-face/" target="_blank">money-mouth emoji</a> with its dazed eyes and lolling tongue. Yet despite its polyglot ubiquity, the origins of the dollar sign remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins, the Pillars of Hercules and harried merchants.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1195, member: 1"] [URL='http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190528-the-curious-origin-of-the-symbol'][B]The curious origins of the dollar symbol - BBC[/B][/URL] [B] Despite its ubiquity, the origins of the dollar sign remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins, the Pillars of Hercules and harried merchants. [/B] The dollar sign is among the world’s most potent symbols, emblematic of far more than US currency. It’s shorthand for the American dream and all the consumerism and commodification that comes with it, signifying at once sunny aspiration, splashy greed and rampant capitalism. It’s been co-opted by pop culture (think Ke$ha when she first started out, or any number of fast-fashion t-shirts) and borrowed by artists (Salvador Dali fashioned a moustache from it, Andy Warhol rendered it in acrylic and silkscreen, creating an iconic body of work that itself now sells for $$$). It’s used widely in computer coding and it provides [URL='https://emojipedia.org/money-mouth-face/']money-mouth emoji[/URL] with its dazed eyes and lolling tongue. Yet despite its polyglot ubiquity, the origins of the dollar sign remain far from clear, with competing theories touching on Bohemian coins, the Pillars of Hercules and harried merchants. [/QUOTE]
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