#28 En los comentarios desmienten que venga de ahí, por más que la historia de las columnas de Hércules esté más chula.
djublonskopf (contestando a otro comentario que hablaba de que el $ venía de la U superpuesta sobre la S de United States):
Urban legend. There's half-a-dozen or so made up "origins" for the dollar sign, involving a superimposed US (but the dollar sign predates both the US and its dollar currency), or the pillars of Hercules, or the winding route taken by a marauding conqueror, or the caduceus of Hermes, or an old Roman coin . . . but the "superimposed PS" origin actually has good textual evidence supporting it, and it's the story the US Treasury is sticking with(1).
woodencoyote:
I learned in school that the $ involved from this Spanish heraldry, the Pillars of Heracles. Is that not the case then?
djublonskopf:
It is not the case, I'm sorry to say, although that is certainly a commonly-repeated story. (There's a similar urban legend in Brazil involving the Pillars of Heracles and the meandering route used by Tariq ibn Ziyad.)(2) But the textual evidence (years and years of preserved handwritten merchant communications from multiple nations and colonies on both sides of the Atlantic showing a clear progression from PS to a $) is very much in favor of the superimposed PS.
Desconozco si hay algo de certeza en la historia de las columnas por encima de la de PS, pero dada la explicación dudo que la suficiente como para lanzarse a poner ERRÓNEA en mayúsculas y negrita, como si eso reforzase la teoría de las columnas. De hecho, la explicación de la PS superpuesta parece la más ampliamente aceptada y documentalmente soportada:
The most widely accepted explanation, according to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, goes back to the Spanish peso, which was accepted as the basic unit of value in colonial America during the late 1700s. Handwritten manuscripts dating to that time show that the peso—formally “peso de ocho reales” or “piece of eight” in America—was abbreviated PS. It’s believed that as time went on, the abbreviation was often written so that the S was on top of the P, producing an approximation of the $ symbol. The $ first appeared in print after 1800, and was widely used by the time the first U.S. paper dollar was issued in 1875.
http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/where-did-the-dollar-sign-come-from
cc/ #33 #36 #46 #4 #26
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(1) http://www.moneyfactory.gov/faqlibrary.html
(2) http://www.casadamoeda.gov.br/portalCMB/menu/cmb/sobreCMB/origem-cifrao.jsp
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Creo recordar en una clase de historia económica de España q el origen de la $ es debido a que las sacas con el oro q venia del nuevo mundo iban marcadas con la S (por la ciudad de Sevilla donde acuñaban las monedas ) y la doble II por las columnas de Hércules. S + II = $