{"id":1892,"date":"2010-12-28T02:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2010-12-28T02:51:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T10:51:48","slug":"the-origin-of-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"The origin of the dollar $"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\">\n<div>\n<p>A mining hole in the mountains of Bohemia produced so much silver  it became the official source of coinage for the entire Holy Roman  Empire. The mine was in a valley called Joachimsthal, and the coins came  to have the same name: \u201cJoachimstalers.\u201d Over time this became  shortened to \u201cTalers\u201d and over more time, the American pronunciation of  the word became the name for the currency that you would like to have in  your pocket.<\/p>\n<p>The $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans  businessman, using a combination of Spanish money symbols.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mining hole in the mountains of Bohemia produced so much silver it became the official source of coinage for the entire Holy Roman Empire. The mine was in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=1892\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[7124,7125,7126,7127,7128,7129],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","tag-7124","tag-about-the-dollar","tag-dollar","tag-oliver-pollock","tag-the-dollar","tag-the-origin-of-the-dollar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}