From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 22:08:10 CST
Kevin Brown scripsit:
> Incidentally, as far as I know, neither the dollar symbol nor cent symbol
> have ever appeared on Australia's paper money or coinage.
>
> Is this unusual?
I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
current American bills and coins do not use either symbol. The bills
in common use say ONE DOLLAR, FIVE DOLLARS, TEN DOLLARS, and TWENTY
DOLLARS; the coins say ONE CENT, FIVE CENTS (the name "nickel" is
informal), ONE DIME, and QUARTER DOLLAR. The bills are also marked
using digits.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)
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