why is the dollar sign using an S?

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$hit? 🤔

asks a question during zapathon

not a smart move

It stands for: better $tack $ats

"One theory holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts shows that the s gradually came to be written over the p, developing into a close equivalent to the "$" mark."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Use_for_the_Spanish_American_peso_in_the_late_1700s

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