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or suffix</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prefix_or_suffix-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Use_in_the_Portuguese_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_in_the_Portuguese_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2</span> <span>Use in the Portuguese Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Use_in_the_Portuguese_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-One_stroke_vs._two_strokes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#One_stroke_vs._two_strokes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>One stroke vs. two strokes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-One_stroke_vs._two_strokes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Use_in_computer_software" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_in_computer_software"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Use in computer software</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Use_in_computer_software-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Use in computer software subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Use_in_computer_software-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Encoding" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Encoding"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Encoding</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Encoding-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Programming_languages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Programming_languages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Programming languages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Programming_languages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Operating_systems" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Operating_systems"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Operating systems</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Operating_systems-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Applications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Applications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Applications</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Applications-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Other_uses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_uses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Other uses</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_uses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Explanatory_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Explanatory_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Explanatory notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Explanatory_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_and_cited_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_and_cited_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>General and cited sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_and_cited_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label 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href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_i%C5%9Far%C9%99si" title="Dollar işarəsi – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Dollar işarəsi" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollartegn" title="Dollartegn – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Dollartegn" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarim%C3%A4rk" title="Dollarimärk – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Dollarimärk" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolarsigno" title="Dolarsigno – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Dolarsigno" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1" title="نماد دلار – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نماد دلار" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbole_dollar" title="Symbole dollar – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Symbole dollar" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B4%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB_%D5%B6%D5%B7%D5%A1%D5%B6" title="Դոլարի նշան – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Դոլարի նշան" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanda_dolar" title="Tanda dolar – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Tanda dolar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbolo_del_dollaro" title="Simbolo del dollaro – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Simbolo del dollaro" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A8" title="סימן הדולר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סימן הדולר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alama_dola" title="Alama dola – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Alama dola" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AE%C5%9Fana_dolar%C3%AA" title="Nîşana dolarê – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Nîşana dolarê" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doll%C3%A1rjel" title="Dollárjel – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Dollárjel" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanda_dolar" title="Tanda dolar – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Tanda dolar" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollarteken" title="Dollarteken – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Dollarteken" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/$" title="$ – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="$" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%B0_(%E0%A8%9A%E0%A8%BF%E0%A9%B0%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B9)" title="ਡਾਲਰ (ਚਿੰਨ੍ਹ) – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਡਾਲਰ (ਚਿੰਨ੍ਹ)" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolar_(znak)" title="Dolar (znak) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Dolar (znak)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3lar_(sinal)" title="Dólar (sinal) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Dólar (sinal)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0" title="Символ доллара – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Символ доллара" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simboli_i_Dollarit_Amerikan" title="Simboli i Dollarit Amerikan – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Simboli i Dollarit Amerikan" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign" title="Dollar sign – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Dollar sign" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a 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color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">$</span></span> or <span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1053990823">.mw-parser-output .cifrao-symbol{font-family:Bodoni MT,Big Caslon,Garamond,Baskerville,Brush Script MT}</style><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span></span> depending on <a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typeface</a>), used to indicate the unit of various <a href="/wiki/Currency" title="Currency">currencies</a> around the world, including most currencies denominated "<a href="/wiki/Dollar" title="Dollar">dollar</a>" or "<a href="/wiki/Peso" title="Peso">peso</a>". The explicitly double-barred <span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base,#202122); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span></span> sign is called <b><a href="/wiki/Cifr%C3%A3o" class="mw-redirect" title="Cifrão">cifrão</a></b> in the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese language</a>. </p><p>The sign is also used in several compound currency symbols, such as the <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_real" title="Brazilian real">Brazilian real</a> (R$) and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_dollar" title="United States dollar">United States dollar</a> (US$): in local use, the nationality prefix is usually omitted. In countries that have other <a href="/wiki/Currency_symbol" title="Currency symbol">currency symbols</a>, the US dollar is often assumed and the "US" prefix omitted. </p><p>The one- and two-stroke versions are often considered mere stylistic (<a href="/wiki/Typeface" title="Typeface">typeface</a>) variants, although in some places and epochs one of them may have been specifically assigned, by law or custom, to a specific currency. The <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> computer encoding standard defines a single code for both. </p><p>In most <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>-speaking countries that use that symbol, it is placed to the left of the amount specified, e.g. "$1", read as "one dollar". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The symbol appears in business correspondence in the 1770s from <a href="/wiki/New_Spain" title="New Spain">Spanish America</a>, the early independent U.S., British America and Britain, referring to the Spanish American peso,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also known as "<a href="/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar">Spanish dollar</a>" or "piece of eight" in British America. Those coins provided the model for the currency that the United States adopted in 1792, and for the larger coins of the new Spanish American republics, such as the <a href="/wiki/Mexican_peso" title="Mexican peso">Mexican peso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Argentine_peso" title="Argentine peso">Argentine peso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peruvian_real" title="Peruvian real">Peruvian real</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bolivian_sol" title="Bolivian sol">Bolivian sol</a> coins. </p><p>With the <a href="/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1792" title="Coinage Act of 1792">Coinage Act of 1792</a>, the United States Congress created the U.S. dollar, defining it to have "the value of a Spanish milled dollar as the same is now current"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but a variety of foreign coins were deemed to be <a href="/wiki/Legal_tender" title="Legal tender">legal tender</a> until the <a href="/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1857" title="Coinage Act of 1857">Coinage Act of 1857</a> ended this status.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest U.S. dollar coins did not have any dollar symbol. The first occurrence in print is claimed to be from 1790s, by a Philadelphia printer <a href="/wiki/Binny_%26_Ronaldson" title="Binny & Ronaldson">Archibald Binny</a>, creator of the <a href="/wiki/Monticello_(typeface)" title="Monticello (typeface)">Monticello typeface</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ander2019_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ander2019-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The $1 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Note" title="United States Note">United States Note</a> issued by the United States in 1869 included a large symbol consisting of a "U" with the right bar overlapping an "S" like a single-bar dollar sign, as well as a very small double-stroke dollar sign in the legal warning against forgery.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earlier_history_of_the_symbol">Earlier history of the symbol</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Earlier history of the symbol"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Potosi_Real.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Potosi_Real.jpg/220px-Potosi_Real.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Potosi_Real.jpg/330px-Potosi_Real.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Potosi_Real.jpg 2x" data-file-width="409" data-file-height="397" /></a><figcaption>A piece of eight from the <a href="/wiki/Potos%C3%AD" title="Potosí">Potosí</a> mint, showing the Pillars of Hercules with "S" ribbons, and two "PTSI" monograms at about 4 and 8 o'clock around the edge</figcaption></figure> <p>It is still uncertain, however, how the dollar sign came to represent the Spanish American peso. There are currently several competing hypotheses: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png/220px-Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png/330px-Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png/440px-Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png 2x" data-file-width="1053" data-file-height="1113" /></a><figcaption>Iconic representation of the Pillars of Hercules with ribbon <i>Plus Ultra</i> ("further beyond"), in <a href="/wiki/Seville" title="Seville">Seville</a> (16th century).</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>The most widely accepted theory holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American <a href="/wiki/Scribal_abbreviation" title="Scribal abbreviation">scribal abbreviation</a> "p<sup>s</sup>" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a> shows that the <i>s</i> gradually came to be written over the <i>p</i>, developing into a close equivalent to the "$" mark.<sup id="cite_ref-cajori1929_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cajori1929-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nuss1957_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nuss1957-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Pollock" title="Oliver Pollock">Oliver Pollock</a>, a wealthy <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Irish</a> trader and early supporter of the American Revolution, used the abbreviation "ps", sometimes run together in a way that almost exactly resembled the dollar sign, in a letter dated 1778.<sup id="cite_ref-ander2019_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ander2019-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-roth2018_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roth2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are documents showing the common use of the two-stroke version in Portugal already by 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-beux1775_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beux1775-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Another hypothesis derives the sign from a depiction of the <a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Hercules" title="Pillars of Hercules">Pillars of Hercules</a>, a classical symbol for two sides of the <a href="/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar" title="Strait of Gibraltar">Strait of Gibraltar</a>, with a <a href="/wiki/Ribbon" title="Ribbon">ribbon</a> wrapped around each pillar (or both pillars) in the form of an "S". This device is a support element of the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_coat_of_arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Spanish coat of arms">Spanish coat of arms</a>, and appeared on the most common <i>real de ocho</i> coins circulating at the time in the Americas and Europe; namely, those minted at the <a href="/wiki/Potos%C3%AD" title="Potosí">Potosí</a> mint in <a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>, which operated from 1573 to 1825.<sup id="cite_ref-seij2017_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seij2017-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nuss1957_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nuss1957-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indeed, one of the names used for Spanish dollars in <a href="/wiki/Qing_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qing Dynasty">Qing Dynasty</a> China was <span lang="zh-Hant">雙柱</span>; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">Shuāngzhù</span></i>; 'double-pillar'.<sup id="cite_ref-theo2016_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theo2016-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Philip_V_Coin_silver,_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg/220px-Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg/330px-Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg/440px-Philip_V_Coin_silver%2C_8_Reales_Mexico.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="421" /></a><figcaption>The Pillars of Hercules wrapped by a cloth band, on an 18th century Spanish coin.</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar symbol evolution" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg/225px-Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg.png" decoding="async" width="225" height="127" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg/338px-Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg/450px-Dollar_Symbol_Evolution.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="498" data-file-height="281" /></a><figcaption>Development of the dollar sign, according to two hypotheses.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>A variant of the above theory claims that the sign comes from the <a href="/wiki/Mint_mark" title="Mint mark">mark</a> of the mint at <a href="/wiki/Potos%C3%AD" title="Potosí">Potosí</a>, where a large portion of the Spanish Empire's silver was mined. A feature on these coins were the letters "P T S I" superimposed. The core of this <a href="/wiki/Monogram" title="Monogram">monogram</a> is a (single-stroked) "$" sign.<sup id="cite_ref-chor2011_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chor2011-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins,_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts,_1686.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png/220px-Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png/330px-Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png/440px-Sample_ledger_with_dollar_sign_in_John_Collins%2C_An_Introduction_to_Merchants-Accompts%2C_1686.png 2x" data-file-width="2926" data-file-height="504" /></a><figcaption>Sample ledger with a sign for dollar from John Collins 1686</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Yet another hypothesis notes that the English word "dollar" for the Spanish piece of eight originally came (through <a href="/wiki/Dutch_language" title="Dutch language">Dutch</a> <i>daalder</i>) from <a href="/wiki/Joachimsthaler" class="mw-redirect" title="Joachimsthaler">Joachimsthaler</a> or <a href="/wiki/Thaler" title="Thaler">thaler</a>, a similar large German silver coin that was widely used in Europe. It is therefore conjectured that the dollar sign derived from a symbol consisting of a superimposing S and I or J that was used to denote the German silver coin. Such symbol appears in the 1686 edition of <i>An Introduction to Merchants' Accounts</i> by <a href="/wiki/John_Collins_(mathematician)" title="John Collins (mathematician)">John Collins</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Alternatively, the symbol could have come from a snake and cross emblem on the thaler coins.<sup id="cite_ref-ander2019_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ander2019-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Less_likely_theories">Less likely theories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Less likely theories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following theories seem to have been discredited or contradicted by documentary evidence: </p> <ul><li>In 1937, historian <a href="/wiki/James_Alton_James" title="James Alton James">James Alton James</a> claimed that the symbol with two strokes was an adapted design of patriot <a href="/wiki/Robert_Morris_(financier)" title="Robert Morris (financier)">Robert Morris</a> in 1778, in letters written to Pollock.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-roth2018_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roth2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In 1939, H. M. Larson suggested that the sign could derive from a combination of the Greek character <a href="/wiki/Psi_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Psi (letter)">"psi" (ψ)</a> and "S".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A theory claims that the sign started off as a monogram of "US", with a narrow "U" superimposed on the "S"; the bottom part of the "U" would have been lost, producing the dollar sign with two vertical lines. This theory was mentioned in letters to <a href="/wiki/Notes_and_Queries" title="Notes and Queries">Notes and Queries</a> in 1876.<sup id="cite_ref-cajori1929_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cajori1929-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henry_R._Towne" title="Henry R. Towne">Henry Towne</a> begins his classic 1886 essay on management with this theory.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was also claimed by <a href="/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a> in her 1957 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged" title="Atlas Shrugged">Atlas Shrugged</a></i>; in her version of the theory the monogram "US" would have been used on money bags issued by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Mint" title="United States Mint">United States Mint</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-hist2018_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hist2018-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ander2019_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ander2019-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Authors T. Seijas and J. Frederick noted that the captors of slaves in Spanish territories sometimes branded enslaved people with a symbol very similar to a one-barred dollar sign. <i>Esclavo</i> is Spanish for "slave," and <i>clavo</i> means nail. A dollar sign would then be S + <i>clavo</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-seij2017_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-seij2017-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A theory often cited in <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_language" title="Portuguese language">Portuguese</a> speaking countries is that the "S" part of the doubly-stroked sign is a schematic representation of the path followed by the <a href="/wiki/Umayyad_Caliphate" title="Umayyad Caliphate">Umayyad Caliphate</a> general <a href="/wiki/Tariq_Ibn_Ziyad" class="mw-redirect" title="Tariq Ibn Ziyad">Tariq Ibn Ziyad</a> in his conquest of the <a href="/wiki/Visigoth" class="mw-redirect" title="Visigoth">Visigoth</a> kingdom in 711 <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>, and the two strokes represent the Pillars of Hercules that he would have crossed along that path. That symbol would have been engraved in coins commemorating his victory, and then became symbolic of currency in general.<sup id="cite_ref-cmoeda_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cmoeda-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Currencies_that_use_the_dollar_sign">Currencies that use the dollar sign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Currencies that use the dollar sign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="As_symbol_of_the_currency">As symbol of the currency</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: As symbol of the currency"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The numerous currencies called "<a href="/wiki/Dollar#Economies_that_use_a_"dollar"" title="Dollar">dollar</a>" use the dollar sign to express money amounts. The sign is also generally used for the many currencies called "<a href="/wiki/Peso#Countries_that_use_pesos" title="Peso">peso</a>" (except the <a href="/wiki/Philippine_peso" title="Philippine peso">Philippine peso</a>, which uses the symbol "<a href="/wiki/Philippine_peso_sign" title="Philippine peso sign">₱</a>"). Within a country the dollar/peso sign may be used alone. In other cases, and to avoid ambiguity in international usage, it is usually combined with other glyphs, e.g. CA$ or Can$ for <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">Canadian dollar</a>. Particularly in professional contexts, the unambiguous <a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217 three letter code</a> (AUD, MXN, USD, etc.) is preferred. </p><p>The dollar sign, alone or in combination with other glyphs, is or was used to denote several currencies with other names, including: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_cruzeiro_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian cruzeiro (disambiguation)">Brazilian cruzeiro</a> (various currencies, all defunct): ₢$, CR<span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span>, Cr<span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span>, NCr<span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span>, etc.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_real" title="Brazilian real">Brazilian real</a>: R$</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_birr" title="Ethiopian birr">Ethiopian birr</a> (until 1976): E$</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macanese_pataca" title="Macanese pataca">Macanese pataca</a>: MOP$</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicaraguan_c%C3%B3rdoba" title="Nicaraguan córdoba">Nicaraguan córdoba</a>: C$</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samoan_t%C4%81l%C4%81" title="Samoan tālā">Samoan tālā</a> (a transliteration of the word dollar): $</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tongan_pa%CA%BBanga" title="Tongan paʻanga">Tongan paʻanga</a>: T$</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaya_and_British_Borneo_dollar" title="Malaya and British Borneo dollar">Malaya and British Borneo dollar</a> (1957–1967): $</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_ringgit" title="Malaysian ringgit">Malaysian ringgit</a> (1967–1997): $, M$, M<span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Vietnamese_%C4%91%E1%BB%93ng" title="South Vietnamese đồng">South Vietnamese đồng</a> (1953–1975): $, <span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prefix_or_suffix">Prefix or suffix<span class="anchor" id="Placement"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Prefix or suffix"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Pacific Island nations, and English-speaking Canada, the sign is written before the number ("$5"), even though the word is written or spoken after it ("five dollars", "<i>cinco pesos</i>"). In French-speaking Canada, exceptionally, the dollar symbol usually appears after the number,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> e.g., "5$". (The <a href="/wiki/Cent_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Cent symbol">cent symbol</a> is written after the number in most countries that use it, e.g., "5<a href="/wiki/%C2%A2" class="mw-redirect" title="¢">¢</a>".) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_in_the_Portuguese_Empire">Use in the Portuguese Empire<span class="anchor" id="Cifrão"></span><span class="anchor" id="Cifrao"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Use in the Portuguese Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Car_with_price.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Car_with_price.jpg/220px-Car_with_price.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Car_with_price.jpg/330px-Car_with_price.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Car_with_price.jpg/440px-Car_with_price.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>Car for sale in Cape Verde, showing use of the <i>cifrão</i> as decimals separator</figcaption></figure> <p>In Portugal, Brazil, and other parts of the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Empire" title="Portuguese Empire">Portuguese Empire</a>, the two-stroke variant of the sign (with the name <b><span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/Cifr%C3%A3o" class="mw-redirect" title="Cifrão">cifrão</a></i></span></b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Portuguese pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pt-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Portuguese" title="Help:IPA/Portuguese">[siˈfɾɐ̃w]</a></span> <span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/8\/86\/Pt-cifr%C3%A3o.oga\/Pt-cifr%C3%A3o.oga.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"Pt-cifr\u00e3o.oga"},"classes":["noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/86/Pt-cifr%C3%A3o.oga/Pt-cifr%C3%A3o.oga.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"><span class="oo-ui-iconElement-icon oo-ui-icon-volumeUp"></span><span class="oo-ui-labelElement-label"></span><span class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Pt-cifr%C3%A3o.oga" title="File:Pt-cifrão.oga">ⓘ</a></sup></span>) was used as the thousands separator of amounts in the national currency, the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_real" title="Portuguese real">real</a> (plural "réis", abbreviated "Rs."): <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" />123<span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span>500 meant "<span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7005123500000000000♠"></span>123<span style="margin-left:.25em;">500</span> réis</span>". This usage is attested in 1775, but may be older by a century or more.<sup id="cite_ref-beux1775_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-beux1775-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is always written with two vertical lines: <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/15px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/23px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/30px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span>. It is the official sign of the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verdean_escudo" title="Cape Verdean escudo">Cape Verdean escudo</a> (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217</a>: CVE). </p><p>In 1911, Portugal redefined the national currency as the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_escudo" title="Portuguese escudo">escudo</a>, worth <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7003100000000000000♠"></span>1000 réis</span>, and divided into 100 <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">centavos</i></span>; but the <i>cifrão</i> continued to be used as the <a href="/wiki/Decimal_point" class="mw-redirect" title="Decimal point">decimal separator</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-silva2019_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silva2019-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> so that <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" />123<span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span>50 meant <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7002123500000000000♠"></span>123.50 escudos</span> or 123 escudos and 50 centavos. This usage ended in 2002 when the country switched to the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a>. (A similar scheme to use a letter symbol instead of a decimal point is used by the <a href="/wiki/RKM_code" title="RKM code">RKM code</a> in electrical engineering since 1952.) </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a>, a republic and former Portuguese colony, similarly switched from the real to their local <a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde_escudo" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Verde escudo">escudo</a> and centavos in 1914, and retains the <i>cifrão</i> usage as decimals separator as of 2021. Local versions of the Portuguese escudo were for a time created also for other overseas colonies, including <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Timor_escudo" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese Timor escudo">East Timor</a> (1958–1975), <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Indian_escudo" title="Portuguese Indian escudo">Portuguese India</a> (1958–1961), <a href="/wiki/Angolan_escudo" title="Angolan escudo">Angola</a> (1914–1928 and 1958–1977), <a href="/wiki/Mozambican_escudo" title="Mozambican escudo">Mozambique</a> (1914–1980), <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Guinean_escudo" title="Portuguese Guinean escudo">Portuguese Guinea</a> (1914–1975), and <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe_escudo" title="São Tomé and Príncipe escudo">São Tomé and Príncipe</a> (1914–1977); all using the <i>cifrão</i> as decimals separator.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a> retained the real and the <i>cifrão</i> as thousands separator until 1942, when it switched to the <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_cruzeiro_(1942%E2%80%931967)" title="Brazilian cruzeiro (1942–1967)">Brazilian cruzeiro</a>, with comma as the decimals separator. The dollar sign, officially with one stroke but often rendered with two, was retained as part of the currency symbol <span class="nowrap">"Cr$"</span>, so one would write <span class="nowrap">Cr$13,50</span> for 13 cruzeiros and 50 centavos.<sup id="cite_ref-cruz1960_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cruz1960-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>cifrão</i> was formerly used by the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_escudo" title="Portuguese escudo">Portuguese escudo</a> (ISO: PTE) before its replacement by the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a> and by the <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Timor_escudo" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese Timor escudo">Portuguese Timor escudo</a> (ISO: TPE) before its replacement by the <a href="/wiki/Indonesian_rupiah" title="Indonesian rupiah">Indonesian rupiah</a> and the <a href="/wiki/US_dollar" class="mw-redirect" title="US dollar">US dollar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LT_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LT-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Portuguese and Cape Verdean usage, the <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">cifrão</i></span> is placed as a decimal point between the escudo and <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt"><a href="/wiki/Centavo" title="Centavo">centavo</a></i></span> values.<sup id="cite_ref-Moedas_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moedas-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name originates in the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">ṣifr</i></span> (‏<span lang="ar" dir="rtl"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%B1#Arabic" class="extiw" title="wikt:صفر">صِفْر</a></span>‎), meaning 'zero'.<sup id="cite_ref-Casa_da_Moeda_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Casa_da_Moeda-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outside the Portuguese cultural sphere, the <a href="/wiki/South_Vietnamese_%C4%91%E1%BB%93ng" title="South Vietnamese đồng">South Vietnamese đồng</a> before 1975 used a method similar to the <i>cifrão</i> to separate values of đồng from its decimal subunit <i>xu</i>. For example, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" />7<span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span>50 meant 7 đồng and 50 xu. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="One_stroke_vs._two_strokes">One stroke vs. two strokes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: One stroke vs. two strokes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/170px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/255px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg/340px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a><figcaption>Double-barred dollar or <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">Cifrão</i></span> sign</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Pound_sign#Double_bar_style" title="Pound sign">Pound sign § Double bar style</a></div> <p>In some places and at some times, the one- and two-stroke variants have been used in the same contexts to distinguish between the U.S. dollar and other local currency, such as the former <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_escudo" title="Portuguese escudo">Portuguese escudo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-silva2019_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silva2019-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, such usage is not standardized, and the <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> specification considers the two versions as <a href="/wiki/Allograph" title="Allograph">graphic variants of the same symbol</a>—a <a href="/wiki/Typeface_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Typeface design">typeface design</a> choice.<sup id="cite_ref-U+0024_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U+0024-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Computer and typewriter keyboards usually have a single key for that sign, and many character encodings (including <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> and <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a>) reserve a single numeric code for it. Indeed, dollar signs in the same digital document may be rendered with one or two strokes, if different <a href="/wiki/Computer_font" title="Computer font">computer fonts</a> are used, but the underlying <a href="/wiki/Codepoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Codepoint">codepoint</a> U+0024 (ASCII 36<sub>10</sub>) remains unchanged. </p><p>When a specific variant is not mandated by law or custom, the choice is usually a matter of expediency or aesthetic preference. Both versions were used in the US in the 18th century. (An 1861 <a href="/wiki/U._S._Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="U. S. Civil War">Civil War</a>-era advertisement depicts the two-stroked symbol as a snake.<sup id="cite_ref-roth2018_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-roth2018-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) The two-stroke version seems to be generally less popular today, though used in some "old-style" fonts like <a href="/wiki/Baskerville_(typeface)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baskerville (typeface)">Baskerville</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Use_in_computer_software">Use in computer software</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Use in computer software"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because of its use in early American computer applications such as business accounting, the dollar sign is almost universally present in computer <a href="/wiki/Character_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Character set">character sets</a>, and thus has been appropriated for many purposes unrelated to money in <a href="/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming languages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Command_language" title="Command language">command languages</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Encoding">Encoding</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Encoding"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The dollar sign "$" has Unicode code point U+0024 (inherited from <a href="/wiki/ASCII" title="ASCII">ASCII</a> via <a href="/wiki/Latin-1" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin-1">Latin-1</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-U+0024_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U+0024-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+0024</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">$</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">DOLLAR SIGN</span> (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">&dollar;</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>There are no separate encodings for one- and two-line variants. The choice is typeface-dependent, they are <a href="/wiki/Allograph" title="Allograph">allographs</a>. However, there are three other code points that originate from other East Asian standards: the Taiwanese <a href="/wiki/Small_Form_Variants" title="Small Form Variants">small form variant</a>, the CJK <a href="/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms" title="Halfwidth and fullwidth forms">fullwidth form</a>, and the Japanese <a href="/wiki/Emoji" title="Emoji">emoji</a>. The glyphs for these code points are typically larger or smaller than the primary code point, but the difference is mostly aesthetic or typographic, and the meanings of the symbols are the same. </p> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+FE69</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">﹩</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">SMALL DOLLAR SIGN</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+FF04</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">＄</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">FULLWIDTH DOLLAR SIGN</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734" /><span class="monospaced">U+1F4B2</span> </span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">💲</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase; font-feature-settings: 'onum'">HEAVY DOLLAR SIGN</span></li></ul> <p>However, for usage as the special character in various computing applications (see following sections), U+0024 is typically the only code that is recognized. </p><p>Support for the two-line variant varies. As of 2019,<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit">[update]</a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> standard considers the distinction between one- and two-bar dollar signs a <a href="/wiki/Allograph" title="Allograph">stylistic distinction between fonts</a>, and has no separate <a href="/wiki/Code_point" title="Code point">code point</a> for the <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">cifrão</i></span>. The symbol is not in the October 2019 "pipeline",<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though it has been requested formally.<sup id="cite_ref-silva2019_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silva2019-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among others, the following fonts display a double-bar dollar sign for code point 0024:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> regular-weight <a href="/wiki/Baskerville" title="Baskerville">Baskerville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Big_Caslon" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Caslon">Big Caslon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bodoni_MT" class="mw-redirect" title="Bodoni MT">Bodoni MT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garamond" title="Garamond">Garamond</a>: (<span style="font-family:Bodoni MT, Big Caslon, Garamond, Baskerville, Brush Script MT, STFangsong, STKaiti, STSong, serif">$</span>) </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/LaTeX" title="LaTeX">LaTeX</a>, with the textcomp package installed, the <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">cifrão</i></span> (<span style="color: black !important; background-color: white !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" /><span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span></span>) can be input using the command <code>\textdollaroldstyle</code>. However, because of <a href="/wiki/Font_substitution" title="Font substitution">font substitution</a> and the lack of a dedicated code point, the author of an electronic document who uses one of these fonts intending to represent a <span title="Portuguese-language text"><i lang="pt">cifrão</i></span> cannot be sure that every reader will see a double-bar glyph rather than the single barred version. Because of the continued lack of support in Unicode, a single bar dollar sign is frequently employed in its place even for official purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-Moedas_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Moedas-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Where there is any risk of misunderstanding, the <a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">ISO 4217</a> three-letter acronym is used. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Programming_languages">Programming languages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Programming languages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is appended to a <a href="/wiki/Variable_(computer_science)" title="Variable (computer science)">variable</a> name to define that variable’s <a href="/wiki/Data_type" title="Data type">data type</a> as a <a href="/wiki/String_(computer_science)" title="String (computer science)">character string</a>, for example, <code>H$="Hello, world!"</code>.  In discussion, the variable <code>H$</code> would be referred to as “H string.”</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is prefixed to names to define <a href="/wiki/Variable_(mathematics)" title="Variable (mathematics)">variables</a> in the <a href="/wiki/PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a> language and the <a href="/wiki/AutoIt" title="AutoIt">AutoIt</a> automation script language, <a href="/wiki/Scalar_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scalar (computing)">scalar</a> variables in the <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> language (see <a href="/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming)" title="Sigil (computer programming)">sigil (computer programming)</a>), and global variables in the <a href="/wiki/Ruby_(programming_language)" title="Ruby (programming language)">Ruby</a> language. In Perl programming this includes scalar elements of <a href="/wiki/Array_data_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="Array data structure">arrays</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-perl mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$array</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">]</span></code> and <a href="/wiki/Hash_table#Associative_arrays" title="Hash table">hashes</a> <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-perl mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$hash</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="n">foo</span><span class="p">}</span></code>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Unix_shell" title="Unix shell">Unix shells</a>, and later in other programming languages, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> introduces an expression that should be evaluated to yield text. Languages that have adopted this convention include <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a>, <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, <a href="/wiki/C" title="C">C#</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scala_(programming_language)" title="Scala (programming language)">Scala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Groovy_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Groovy (programming language)">Groovy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)" title="Kotlin (programming language)">Kotlin</a>. Other languages, including <a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a> and <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>, use it to mark the place where the result of an expression elsewhere should be inserted into text.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used for defining hexadecimal constants in <a href="/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)" title="Pascal (programming language)">Pascal</a>-like languages such as <a href="/wiki/Delphi_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Delphi (programming language)">Delphi</a>, and in some variants of <a href="/wiki/Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">assembly language</a>, most notably, in the Motorola 6800 and 68000, and MOS Technology 6502 assembly languages.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used in the <a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68" title="ALGOL 68">ALGOL 68</a> language to delimit <a href="/wiki/ALGOL_68#formatted_transput" title="ALGOL 68">transput format</a> regions.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used in the <a href="/wiki/TeX" title="TeX">TeX</a> <a href="/wiki/Typesetting" title="Typesetting">typesetting</a> language to delimit mathematical regions.</li> <li>In many versions of <a href="/wiki/FORTRAN_66" class="mw-redirect" title="FORTRAN 66">FORTRAN 66</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> could be used as an alternative to a quotation mark for delimiting strings.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/PL/M" title="PL/M">PL/M</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> can be used to put a visible separation between words in compound identifiers. For example, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">Some$Name</code> refers to the same thing as 'SomeName'.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Haskell (programming language)">Haskell</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used as a function application operator.</li> <li>In an <a href="/wiki/AutoHotkey" title="AutoHotkey">AutoHotkey</a> script, a hotkey declared with <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is not triggered by a 'Send' command elsewhere in the script.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/JQuery" title="JQuery">jQuery</a> library defines <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> as its main symbol, primarily as a function that queries a web page for one or more <a href="/wiki/HTML_element" title="HTML element">HTML elements</a>, but also with other utilities attached to it as properties like <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$.ajax</code>. The <a href="/wiki/Prototype.js" class="mw-redirect" title="Prototype.js">Prototype.js</a> library defines it similarly for querying.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/ASP.NET" title="ASP.NET">ASP.NET</a>, the dollar sign used in a tag in the web page indicates an expression will follow it. The expression that follows is .NET <a href="/wiki/Language-independent_specification" title="Language-independent specification">language-agnostic</a>, as it will work with C#, <a href="/wiki/VB.NET" class="mw-redirect" title="VB.NET">VB.NET</a>, or any CLR supported language.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)" title="Erlang (programming language)">Erlang</a>, the dollar sign precedes character literals. The dollar sign as a character can be written <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$$</code>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Cobol" class="mw-redirect" title="Cobol">COBOL</a> the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is used in the <a href="/wiki/Picture_clause" class="mw-redirect" title="Picture clause">Picture clause</a> to depict a floating currency symbol as the left most character. The default symbol is <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code>; however, if the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">CURRENCY=</code> or <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">CURRENCY SIGN</code> clause is specified, many other symbols can be used.</li> <li>In some <a href="/wiki/Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">assembly languages</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/MIPS_architecture" title="MIPS architecture">MIPS</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is used to represent registers.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Honeywell_6000_series" title="Honeywell 6000 series">Honeywell 6000 series</a> assembler, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign, when used as an address, meant the address of the instruction in which it appeared.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/CMS-2_(programming_language)#Program_structure" class="mw-redirect" title="CMS-2 (programming language)">CMS-2</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is used as a statement terminator.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/R_(programming_language)" title="R (programming language)">R</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is used as a subsetting operator.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems)" title="Q (programming language from Kx Systems)">Q (programming language from Kx Systems)</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is used as a casting/padding/enumeration/conditional operator.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Sass_(stylesheet_language)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sass (stylesheet language)">Sass</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign is prefixed to define a variable.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Svelte" title="Svelte">Svelte</a>, the <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> sign can be used to mark <a href="/wiki/Reactive_programming" title="Reactive programming">reactive</a> statements.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Operating_systems">Operating systems</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Operating systems"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/CP/M" title="CP/M">CP/M</a> and subsequently in all versions of <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a> (<a href="/wiki/86-DOS" title="86-DOS">86-DOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/PC_DOS" class="mw-redirect" title="PC DOS">PC DOS</a>, more) and derivatives, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> marks the end of text displayed with system function 9. CP/M developer <a href="/wiki/Gary_Kildall" title="Gary Kildall">Gary Kildall</a> never explained the choice and once pointedly remarked that he knew the reason while <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a> did not.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prior uses of <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> for the "end of line" or "end of text" include <a href="/wiki/JOVIAL" title="JOVIAL">JOVIAL</a>, <a href="/wiki/CMS-2" title="CMS-2">CMS-2</a>, the <a href="/wiki/QED_(text_editor)" title="QED (text editor)">QED editor</a> and <a href="/wiki/DECsystem-10" class="mw-redirect" title="DECsystem-10">DECsystem-10</a> (a known influence on CP/M), which displayed the character to confirm that the user pressed the <a href="/wiki/Escape_key" class="mw-redirect" title="Escape key">escape key</a> to complete a line of input.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is appended to the share name to hide a shared folder or resource. For example, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\\server\share</code> will be visible to other computers on a network, while <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">\\server\share$</code> will be accessible only by explicit reference. Hiding a shared folder or resource will not alter its access permissions but may render it inaccessible to programs or other functions which rely on its visibility. Most <a href="/wiki/Administrative_share" title="Administrative share">administrative shares</a> are hidden in this way.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/LDAP" class="mw-redirect" title="LDAP">LDAP</a> directory access protocol, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used as a line separator in various standard entry attributes such as <code>postalAddress</code>.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/UNIVAC_EXEC_8" class="mw-redirect" title="UNIVAC EXEC 8">UNIVAC EXEC 8</a> operating system, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> means "system". It is appended to entities such as the names of system files, the "sender" name in messages sent by the operator, and the default names of system-created files (like compiler output) when no specific name is specified (e.g., <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">TPF$</code>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">NAME$</code>, etc.)</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/RISC_OS" title="RISC OS">RISC OS</a>, <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> is used in system variables to separate the application name from the variables specific to that application. For example <code>Draw$Dir</code> specifies the directory where the <code>!Draw</code> application is located. It is also used to refer to the <a href="/wiki/Root_directory" title="Root directory">root directory</a> of a <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file system</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Applications">Applications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Applications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Microsoft Excel</a><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other spreadsheet software use the dollar sign ($) to denote a fixed row, fixed column reference, or an absolute cell reference.</li> <li>The dollar sign introduces a subfield delimiter in <a href="/wiki/MARC_standards" title="MARC standards">computer coding of library catalog records</a>.</li> <li><code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">$</code> matches the end of a line or string in <a href="/wiki/Sed" title="Sed">sed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grep" title="Grep">grep</a>, and <a href="/wiki/POSIX" title="POSIX">POSIX</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> <a href="/wiki/Regular_expression" title="Regular expression">regular expressions</a>, as well as the end of a line or the file in text editors <a href="/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ed (text editor)">ed</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ex_(text_editor)" title="Ex (text editor)">ex</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vi_(text_editor)" title="Vi (text editor)">vi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pico_(text_editor)" title="Pico (text editor)">pico</a>, and derivatives.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_uses">Other uses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Other uses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The symbol is sometimes used derisively, in place of the letter S, to indicate greed or excess money such as in "<a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Micro$oft</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Disney" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney">Di$ney</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Chelsea_FC" class="mw-redirect" title="Chelsea FC">Chel$ea</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Greater_Western_Sydney_Giants" title="Greater Western Sydney Giants">GW$</a>"; or supposed overt Americanisation as in "<a href="/wiki/Sky_UK" title="Sky UK">$ky</a>". The dollar sign is also used intentionally to stylize names such as <a href="/wiki/ASAP_Rocky" title="ASAP Rocky">A$AP Rocky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kesha" title="Kesha">Ke$ha</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ty_Dolla_Sign" title="Ty Dolla Sign">Ty Dolla $ign</a> or words such as <b><span class="nowrap">¥€$</span></b>. In 1872, <a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a> referred to California governor <a href="/wiki/Leland_Stanford" title="Leland Stanford">Leland Stanford</a> as $tealand Landford.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Scrabble" title="Scrabble">Scrabble</a> notation, a dollar sign is placed after a word to indicate that it is valid according to the <a href="/wiki/Official_Tournament_and_Club_Word_List" class="mw-redirect" title="Official Tournament and Club Word List">North American word lists</a>, but not according to the British word lists.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A dollar symbol is used as <a href="/wiki/Dollar_(reactivity)" title="Dollar (reactivity)">unit of reactivity</a> for a nuclear reactor, <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="5000000000000000000♠"></span>0 <a href="/wiki/$" class="mw-redirect" title="$">$</a></span> being the threshold of slow criticality, meaning a steady reaction rate, while <span class="nowrap"><span data-sort-value="7000100000000000000♠"></span>1 $</span> is the threshold of <a href="/wiki/Prompt_criticality" title="Prompt criticality">prompt criticality</a>, which means a nuclear excursion or explosion.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1993 version of the <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_alphabet" title="Turkmen alphabet">Turkmen Latin alphabet</a> $ was used as a transliteration of the Cyrillic letter Ш, in 1999 was replaced by the letter Ş. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Euro_sign" title="Euro sign">Euro sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign" title="Indian rupee sign">Indian rupee sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pound_sign" title="Pound sign">Pound sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruble_sign" title="Ruble sign">Ruble sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rupee_sign" title="Rupee sign">Rupee sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_dollar" title="Spanish dollar">Spanish dollar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_lira_sign" title="Turkish lira sign">Turkish lira sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yen_and_yuan_sign" title="Yen and yuan sign">Yen and yuan sign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Won_sign" title="Won sign">Won sign</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output 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(1977). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2119352">"The Changing Role of Foreign Money in the United States, 1782-1857"</a>. <i>The Journal of Economic History</i>. <b>37</b> (4): 1009. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0022-0507">0022-0507</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Journal+of+Economic+History&rft.atitle=The+Changing+Role+of+Foreign+Money+in+the+United+States%2C+1782-1857&rft.volume=37&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=1009&rft.date=1977&rft.issn=0022-0507&rft.aulast=Martin&rft.aufirst=David+A.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2119352&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ander2019-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ander2019_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ander2019_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ander2019_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ander2019_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hephzibah Anderson (2019): "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190528-the-curious-origin-of-the-symbol">The curious origins of the dollar symbol</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210812172054/https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190528-the-curious-origin-of-the-symbol">Archived</a> 12 August 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>". Online article at the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> website, dated 29 May 2019. Accessed on 2021-08-12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/File:US-$1-LT-1869-Fr-18.jpg" title="File:US-$1-LT-1869-Fr-18.jpg">Reverse of $1 United States Note (Greenback), series of 1869</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cajori1929-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cajori1929_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cajori1929_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCajori1993" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Florian_Cajori" title="Florian Cajori">Cajori, Florian</a> (1993) [1929]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7juWmvQSTvwC&pg=RA1-PA22"><i>A History of Mathematical Notations</i></a>. Vol. 2. Courier Corporation. pp. <span class="nowrap">15–</span>29. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780486677668" title="Special:BookSources/9780486677668"><bdi>9780486677668</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Mathematical+Notations&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E15-%3C%2Fspan%3E29&rft.pub=Courier+Corporation&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=9780486677668&rft.aulast=Cajori&rft.aufirst=Florian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7juWmvQSTvwC%26pg%3DRA1-PA22&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAitonWheeler1931" class="citation journal cs1">Aiton, Arthur S.; Wheeler, Benjamin W. (May 1931). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1215%2F00182168-11.2.198">"The First American Mint"</a>. <i>The Hispanic American Historical Review</i>. <b>11</b> (2): 198. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1215%2F00182168-11.2.198">10.1215/00182168-11.2.198</a></span>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2506275">2506275</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Hispanic+American+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=The+First+American+Mint&rft.volume=11&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=198&rft.date=1931-05&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1215%2F00182168-11.2.198&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F2506275%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Aiton&rft.aufirst=Arthur+S.&rft.au=Wheeler%2C+Benjamin+W.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1215%252F00182168-11.2.198&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nuss1957-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-nuss1957_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-nuss1957_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFNussbaum1957" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Nussbaum" title="Arthur Nussbaum">Nussbaum, Arthur</a> (1957). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofdollar0000nuss"><i>A History of the Dollar</i></a></span>. New York: Columbia University Press. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/historyofdollar0000nuss/page/56">56</a>. <q>The foreign coins remained in circulation [in the United States], and the more important among them, especially the Spanish (including the Mexican) dollars, were declared by Congress on February 9, 1793, to be legal tender. The dollar sign, $, is connected with the peso, contrary to popular belief, which considers it to be an abbreviation of 'U.S.' The two <a href="/wiki/Parallel_lines" class="mw-redirect" title="Parallel lines">parallel lines</a> represented one of the many abbreviations of 'P,' and the 'S' indicated the plural. The abbreviation '$.' was also used for the peso, and is still used in Argentina.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+the+Dollar&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=56&rft.pub=Columbia+University+Press&rft.date=1957&rft.aulast=Nussbaum&rft.aufirst=Arthur&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhistoryofdollar0000nuss&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFRiesco_Terrero1983" class="citation book cs1">Riesco Terrero, Ángel (1983). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/diccionariodeabr0000ries/page/350"><i>Diccionario de abreviaturas hispanas de los siglos XIII al XVIII: Con un apendice de expresiones y formulas juridico-diplomaticas de uso corriente</i></a>. Salamanca: Imprenta Varona. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/diccionariodeabr0000ries/page/350">350</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/84-300-9090-8" title="Special:BookSources/84-300-9090-8"><bdi>84-300-9090-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Diccionario+de+abreviaturas+hispanas+de+los+siglos+XIII+al+XVIII%3A+Con+un+apendice+de+expresiones+y+formulas+juridico-diplomaticas+de+uso+corriente&rft.place=Salamanca&rft.pages=350&rft.pub=Imprenta+Varona&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=84-300-9090-8&rft.aulast=Riesco+Terrero&rft.aufirst=%C3%81ngel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fdiccionariodeabr0000ries%2Fpage%2F350&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Engraving_and_Printing" title="Bureau of Engraving and Printing">Bureau of Engraving and Printing</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bep.gov/resources/faqs.html#wb_element_text__1399408259221_115">"What is the origin of the $ sign?"</a>. <i>Resources: FAQs</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160409064155/http://www.bep.gov/resources/faqs.html#wb_element_text__1399408259221_115">Archived</a> from the original on 9 April 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 April</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Resources%3A+FAQs&rft.atitle=What+is+the+origin+of+the+%24+sign%3F&rft.au=Bureau+of+Engraving+and+Printing&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bep.gov%2Fresources%2Ffaqs.html%23wb_element_text__1399408259221_115&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-roth2018-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-roth2018_13-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-roth2018_13-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-roth2018_13-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joshua D. Rothman (2018): "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://werehistory.org/the-curious-origins-of-the-dollar-sign/">The Curious Origins of the Dollar Sign</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210812185942/http://werehistory.org/the-curious-origins-of-the-dollar-sign/">Archived</a> 12 August 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>" Online article on the <i>We're History</i> website, dated 2018-04-01. Accessed on 2021-08-12.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-beux1775-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-beux1775_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-beux1775_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">João Joseph Du Beux (1775): <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.unicamp.br/iel/memoria/base_temporal/Numeros/vcXVIII_75a.htm">Receipt of 270$000 Rs.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210812225714/https://www.unicamp.br/iel/memoria/base_temporal/Numeros/vcXVIII_75a.htm">Archived</a> 12 August 2021 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> for purchase by of 50 volumes of the <i>Acta Santorum</i> by the College of the Carmo of Coimbra. Quote: "Recebemos [...] a quantia de Duzentos Settenta mil reis[...] por Clareza passamos este Coimbra 15 de Março de 1775. São <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1053990823" />270<span class="cifrao-symbol skin-invert"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_(narrow).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dollar sign with two vertical lines" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/11px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/17px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg/22px-Cifr%C3%A3o_symbol_%28narrow%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="8" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></span>000 Rs". 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Online article in the website <i>ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art</i>, dated Apr 13, 2016. 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Concerning the Ancestry of the Dollar Sign. - Bulletin of the Business Historical Society. Vol. 19, No. 2 (Apr., 1945), pp. 63-64</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180926054826/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3110685">Archived</a> 26 September 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJames1970" class="citation book cs1">James, James Alton (1970) [1937]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kht_DEllNccC"><i>Robert Morris: The Life and Times of an Unknown Patriot</i></a>. 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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 595.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Physical+Theory+of+Neutron+Chain+Reactors&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pages=595&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1958&rft.aulast=Weinberg&rft.aufirst=Alvin+M.&rft.au=Wigner%2C+Eugene+P.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.ntc.doe.gov/partners/tr/Training%20Textbooks/10-Nuclear%20Physics-Reactor%20Theory/4-Mod-4%20Reactor%20Operations.pdf">"DOE Fundamentals: Nuclear Physics and Reactor Theory: Module 4: Reactor Theory (Reactor Operations)"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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New York: Dover. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-486-67766-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-486-67766-4"><bdi>0-486-67766-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Mathematical+Notations&rft.place=New+York&rft.edition=Reprint&rft.pub=Dover&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-486-67766-4&rft.au=Cajori%2C+Florian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span> Contains section on the history of the dollar sign, with much documentary evidence supporting the "pesos" hypothesis.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFCuhaj2009" class="citation book cs1">Cuhaj, George (2009). <i>Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money</i> (28th ed.). Krause Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-89689-939-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-89689-939-1"><bdi>978-0-89689-939-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Standard+Catalog+of+United+States+Paper+Money&rft.edition=28th&rft.pub=Krause+Publications&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-89689-939-1&rft.aulast=Cuhaj&rft.aufirst=George&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFOvason2004" class="citation book cs1">Ovason, David (30 November 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SGICN1DT1gsC"><i>The Secret Symbols of the Dollar Bill</i></a> (Reprint ed.). Harper Paperbacks. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-06-053045-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-06-053045-6"><bdi>0-06-053045-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Secret+Symbols+of+the+Dollar+Bill&rft.edition=Reprint&rft.pub=Harper+Paperbacks&rft.date=2004-11-30&rft.isbn=0-06-053045-6&rft.aulast=Ovason&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSGICN1DT1gsC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADollar+sign" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dollar_sign&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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