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What Does $ Symbolize?

Where did the $ sign originate?

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    It is most widely accepted that the dollar sign has it's origins in the Spanish coat of arms, which was engraved on the Spanish colonial silver coins known as "Real de a Ocho" (which translate to "piece of eight") or Spanish dollar circulated in the Spanish colonies of America and Asia. They were also in the English Thirteen Colonies and later on the USA and Canada.

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