→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?su→’t until the very early 1800s that it became popularized, around the same time as the first official U.S. dollars were being minted. Previous to this, the symbol had already been in use as an abbreviation for names of Spanish currency, namely as an abbreviation for the Spanish peso “p”. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/06/where-the-dollar-sign-comes-from/ Sources: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/dollarsign?view=uk http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1428645128?ie=UTF8&tag=vicastingcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1428645128 http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxorigin.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler