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Dollar comes from daler/taler:

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dollar

No idea why the pesos sign became the dollar sign, but I'd image it may have something to do with the Spaniards being around long before the English in the Americas.



>>No idea why the pesos sign became the dollar sign, but I'd image it may have something to do with the Spaniards being around long before the English in the Americas

That is the whole point of this article . It tells you where the sign came from.




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