That’s interesting because there was a recent episode of Rob Words where he shows that $ came from the original symbol for the peso. And that the dollar was essentially the same as the peso initially.
If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).
That’s interesting because there was a recent episode of Rob Words where he shows that $ came from the original symbol for the peso. And that the dollar was essentially the same as the peso initially.
https://youtu.be/5Bf4ll1vuWw
If you ever read about the pirate age in the Caribbean, they sometimes talk or “pieces of eight,” aka “pesos,” which are 1/8 of a Spanish Real (the dominant world reserve currency at the time).