At 09:30 PM 10/26/03 -0800, Doug Ewell wrote:
I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
current American bills and coins do not use either symbol. The bills
in common use say ONE DOLLAR, FIVE DOLLARS, TEN DOLLARS, and TWENTY
DOLLARS; the coins say ONE CENT, FIVE
On 26/10/2003 20:08, John Cowan wrote:
Kevin Brown scripsit:
Incidentally, as far as I know, neither the dollar symbol nor cent symbol
have ever appeared on Australia's paper money or coinage.
Is this unusual?
I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
current
On 26/10/2003 21:30, Doug Ewell wrote:
...
In my limited experience, that word DIME has done more to confuse
furriners than anything else about the U.S. and Canadian monetary
systems. The dime is the smallest coin in the set physically, weighing
less than half as much as a nickel, and made of
Asmus Freytag scripsit:
Many monetary systems have coin sizes and weights that are based on
the traditional precious or semi-precious metals once used. The nick-
name for the nickel gives that away, associating it with a different
metal than the (presumably once) silver-based
Hi!
snip
However, the presence of two opposing conventions serves as a strong
hint that there was no consensus in 1966, nor now, as to how glyph
variants of the dollar sign were to be used to stand for
different types
of dollars.
I went to school in the 1980's, and both in Victoria and
The holographic strip on the Euro notes shows the Euro symbol when
viewed at certain angles.
Norbert
Peter Kirk wrote:
The latest issue of UK banknotes do carry the pound sterling sign (with
one crossbar), but this is quite new. At least the more recent former
issues did not, if I remember
Simon Butcher wrote:
My bank (ANZ) recently gave me literature related to obtaining foreign
currency, and used the form $A (that is, with the double-bar form of
the dollar sign, not the single-bar form). Considering the small
glossy leaflet was about the rising Australian dollar, it's
At 20:45 -0800 2003-10-26, Doug Ewell wrote:
The European Commission might have chosen to follow this example 30
years later, instead of trying to mandate that the Euro glyph remain
invariant in all fonts and contexts.
Doug, give that one a rest, OK? That was in 1996.
--
Michael Everson * *
Doug Ewell noted:
The dollar sign was used
occasionally for decoration on large-sized (pre-1929) U.S. currency, but
not on small-sized issues (except for the bank-only $100,000 note).
And very rarely even at that. See:
http://www.money.org/bebeeexhibit.html
for many exhibits of all kinds of
... Ironically,
in 1943-45 nickels were actually minted in silver, as nickel was considered
strategic for the war effort. Current nickels are 75% copper and 25%
nickel, the same as the cladding of the other coins. (Pennies are
copper-clad zinc, however.)
Prior to 1982, pennies were a 95%
On 27/10/03 3:13 AM, Simon Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was taught at school that the double-bar form was used when Australia
switched to decimal currency in 1966, and that it was incorrect to write
the single-bar form when referring to Australian dollars. I guess the
single-bar form
Further to my earlier reply to Simon Baker about the correct symbol for
the Australian dollar, the official position is documented at
http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/0/c7103f5100c7663fca2569de00293f3c?
OpenDocument.
Regarding the currency symbols, the specific recommendation of
Kevin Brown graphity at adelaide dot on dot net wrote:
On 27/10/03 3:13 AM, Simon Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was taught at school that the double-bar form was used when
Australia switched to decimal currency in 1966, and that it was
incorrect to write the single-bar form when
.
John Cowan wrote,
... the coins say ONE CENT, FIVE CENTS (the name nickel is
informal), ONE DIME, and QUARTER DOLLAR.
And HALF DOLLAR and ONE DOLLAR.
In 1883, the U. S. Mint changed the design on the five cent piece.
The word CENTS was omitted from the new design, and the Roman
numeral V
John Cowan cowan at mercury dot ccil dot org wrote:
I can't speak for the whole of the last two centuries, but certainly
current American bills and coins do not use either symbol. The bills
in common use say ONE DOLLAR, FIVE DOLLARS, TEN DOLLARS, and TWENTY
DOLLARS; the coins say ONE CENT,
Hi!
Just a quick question.. The description for U+0024 (DOLLAR SIGN) states that the glyph
may contain one or two vertical bars. Is there a codepoint specifically for the
traditional double-bar form, or any plan to include one in the future?
I was taught at school that the double-bar form was
At 03:36 AM 10/26/03 +1100, Simon Butcher wrote:
Just a quick question.. The description for U+0024 (DOLLAR SIGN) states
that the glyph may contain one or two vertical bars. Is there a codepoint
specifically for the traditional double-bar form, or any plan to include
one in the future?
No.
I
On 25/10/2003 10:16, Asmus Freytag wrote:
At 03:36 AM 10/26/03 +1100, Simon Butcher wrote:
Just a quick question.. The description for U+0024 (DOLLAR SIGN)
states that the glyph may contain one or two vertical bars. Is there
a codepoint specifically for the traditional double-bar form, or any
Hi!
snip
I was taught at school that the double-bar form was used
when Australia
switched to decimal currency in 1966, and that it was
incorrect to write
the single-bar form when referring to Australian dollars.
It would be interesting if you could document that.
That could be tough
At 11:02 AM 10/26/03 +1100, Simon Butcher wrote:
Hi!
snip
I was taught at school that the double-bar form was used
when Australia
switched to decimal currency in 1966, and that it was
incorrect to write
the single-bar form when referring to Australian dollars.
It would be interesting if
From: Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wonder how long before the Euro will also de facto have a single bar?
This is already done since the birth of the symbol, when some legal texts
specify that (if nothing else) a uppercase letter E can be used in
environments that don't support the exact
From: Simon Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Just a quick question.. The description for U+0024 (DOLLAR SIGN) states
that the glyph may contain one or two vertical bars. Is there a codepoint
specifically for the traditional double-bar form, or any plan to include one
in the future?
I was taught
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