Statistics for occurrence #1 of “U. S.” in chapter 12, page 407 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...a purchase without all this bewildering mixture of prices?
When dollars came into common use, all calculations were simplified.
The sign ($) used to express dollars was composed of two letters, U. S. , signifying United States. The S was first written; and then over its face the U was drawn, thus $. Our present currency consists of paper-bills of $1,000, 500, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 3, 2, 1.
Gold, $...
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