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 U.S. paper money from various periods. Almost none of this, from any period, shows a dollar sign. One exception is the back side of a series 1880 U.S. legal tender note: http://www.money.org/paper/lt1000ser70690.html which shows the double-bar version of the dollar sign. --Ken