Editing Dollar (section)

===Origins of the dollar sign===
{{Main article|Dollar sign #History}}

The sign is first attested in business correspondence in the 1770s as a [[scribal abbreviation]] "p<sup>s</sup>", referring to the Spanish American [[peso]],<ref>Lawrence Kinnaird (July 1976). "The Western Fringe of Revolution," ''[[The Western Historical Quarterly]]'' '''7(3)''', 259. {{JSTOR|967081}}</ref><ref>{{citation | journal = [[Popular Science]] | title = Origin of Dollar Sign is Traced to Mexico | year = 1930 | volume = 116 | issue = 2 | issn = 0161-7370 | page = 59 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4ykDAAAAMBAJ}}</ref> that is, the "Spanish dollar" as it was known in British North America. These late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts show that the ''s'' gradually came to be written over the ''p'' developing a close equivalent to the "$" mark, and this new symbol was retained to refer to the American dollar as well, once this currency was adopted in 1785 by the United States.<ref>[[Florian Cajori]] ([1929]1993). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7juWmvQSTvwC&pg=RA1-PA22 A History of Mathematical Notations]'' (Vol. 2), 15-29.</ref><ref>Arthur S. Aiton and Benjamin W. Wheeler (May 1931). "The First American Mint", ''The Hispanic American Historical Review'' '''11(2)''', 198 and note 2 on 198. {{JSTOR|2506275}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nussbaum | first = Arthur | author-link = Arthur Nussbaum | title = A History of the Dollar | url = https://archive.org/details/historyofdollar0000nuss | url-access = registration | publisher = Columbia University Press | year = 1957 | location = New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/historyofdollar0000nuss/page/56 56] }}</ref><ref>Riesco Terrero, Ángel (1983). ''Diccionario de abreviaturas hispanas de los siglos XIII al XVIII: Con un apendice de expresiones y formulas juridico-diplomaticas de uso corriente''. Salamanca: Imprenta Varona, 350. {{ISBN|84-300-9090-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moneyfactory.gov/faqlibrary.html |title='What is the origin of the $ sign?' in FAQ Library |author=Bureau of Engraving and Printing |access-date=December 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505025421/http://www.moneyfactory.gov/faqlibrary.html |archive-date=May 5, 2015 }}</ref>