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1778 - Oliver Pollak came up with a dollar sign. Versions of the origin in abundance - and the abbreviation of the name of the State US, have put together, and then they disappeared from the lower curve, and that the sample was taken as the Spanish peseta currency. Versions and a lot of associations. A name came from Germany. Thaler in Scandinavia called "Daler" in England - the dollar. With the forest on Pine and scored.
At first he was not an evergreen - the banknotes were gray. But there was 1862-63gg party back side which was colored green. It seems to be a surplus of green paint were in New York printing company, which has been entrusted to the issue of banknotes. "Do not disappear as good" - decided zealous owners and let the paint stroke. Nicknamed the green backs, I mean "green backs" stuck immediately. And so it went. Standard view bills - on the front porotret on the back - a monument - was approved in 1929. By the way, the dollar was never a piece of paper - a mixture of cotton and linen fibers, silk fibers stitched. Hence its durability.
At present, the total amount of banknotes in circulation - about a trillion dollars
Salmon Chase - the head of the Supreme Court, the author of «in god we trust» in the bill and the first face on the dollar bill
1938 - Done abuse coffee. Switzerland, "Nestle". Remember this always. This research technologist Max Morgenthaler company showed to the world of instant coffee. In order to better understand the cynicism of what happened, it is worth mentioning that the inventor himself never drank instant coffee. Anathema))
