Today, the dollar sign is a symbol of American power. Learn how this unusual character evolved from colonial currency to the ...

The symbol for the dollar might have originally involved the number 8, perhaps two 8s stacked on top of each other, which evolved into a $ shape. Truth be told, there is no categorical evidence ...

The dollar’s baby sibling, the all-but-worthless cent, is logically represented by a lowercase ‘c’ with a line through it, but there’s no ‘D’ in the dollar sign.