Re: Shape of the US Dollar Sign

From: B (11@onna.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 11:03:57 EDT

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$B:9=P?M(B: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>;
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$B7oL>(B: Re: Shape of the US Dollar Sign

>At 08:10 -0500 2001-09-28, Winkler, Arnold F wrote:
>
>> > I'm in the middle of a research for my Commercial Laws
>>> IV subject, and I need to know what's the official US
>>> dollar sign: the s cross by one or two vertical lines?
>> > is there any law that says so?
>
>I shouldn't think so. Both glyphs have a long history. Look at the
>banknotes; what is there is probably "normative" enough.
>
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Good for you Europeans. We foolish Americans have no dollar SIGN on our banknotes (I think), only the WORD "dollar".
Our coins are also screwy. We have the amount in words, not in figures. And the jerks who designed the Susan B. Anthony $1 coin (now only seen in change from vending machines) should have (but didn't!!) design it after the 50-yen coin, the one with a hole in it! The $1 coin looks too much like a 25$B!q(B coin!! (Score one for the Japanese; I needed to SJIS my cent sign!! I typed "sento" into my IME. The Americans don't have a cent sign but the Japanese do!! Ha ha ha!!!)
Now there is a new $1 coin. It is the color of brass for easier ID (the regular quarter is the color of steel). 

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