498: $ Apr 19, 2016

Although not considered a words (at least not in a morphological sense) doodles and symbols represent ideas in the same way. The $ is no exception. A common folk-theory is that it derives from the figure 8; the justification thereof is that it symbolizes the Spanish eight-bit currency. In fact, the symbol truly comes from a handwritten 'ps', or 'p^s' (if you consider computer notation) which was the abbreviation for 'peso' in Spanish-America.