Talk:Dollar

US Territories...?

It seems silly to specify in the intro that US territories such as PR, USVI, etc us the US Dollar. Of course they do. Why not specify that Alberta uses the Canadian dollar? No difference. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.243.196.34 (talk) 17:36, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

Origin of Symbol

I thought this was long and firmly established, now we have a new section with a vague coincidence regarding the pillars of Hercules Unibond (talk) 14:19, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Spain on map?

I don't know what it is based on, but Spain has never used any currency named or related to the dollar. Even more, it used a currency upon which the dollar was loosely based (but if that is going to be marked, it should be marked differently and including much more modern countries that were back then part of Spain). Metalpotato (talk) 13:16, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

I think it's odd, too; and, if Spain is to be shown as a country that formerly used a "dollar", why then should countries that currently still use a peso ($) not also be coloured dark green? The only reason I can think of was that "dollar" was the common name in English for the Spanish currency; contrariwise, e.g. Mexican pesos have never been commonly called "dollars". *shrug* It is still somewhat misleading, though, as Spain never called their own currency dollars. Firejuggler86 (talk) 15:24, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Late reply, but I agree. If Spain is marked green, so should other parts of the former Spanish Empire. Mexico especially, considering how frequently the real de a ocho was called the "Mexican silver dollar". Cortador (talk) 12:30, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

Paragraph on "Countries and regions that have previously used a "dollar" currency"

What does the Euro have to do with any "Dollar" or "Pieces of Eight" using currency? The sentence: "Spain: the Spanish dollar (from 1497 to 1868) is closely related to the dollars (Spanish dollar was used in USA until 1857) and euros used today." does not make much sense. Ciao --Pentaclebreaker (talk) 16:55, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Section "Relationship to the troy pound"

The section Relationship to the troy pound lays out a number of apparently circumstantial similarities between the dollar (taken as a unit of weight of gold or silver) to the ratios of a troy pound and a pennyweight. At the end of the section is the statement The actual process of defining the US silver dollar had nothing to do with any geometric mean. Why include the section at all if these ratio similarities are purely circumstantial and had nothing to do with setting the value of a US dollar? Since the section is entirely uncited, I propose to remove it unless someone can convince me otherwise. WikiDan61^ChatMe!_ReadMe!! 17:00, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Buck as slang for dollar

'Before' formal currency in North America, the informal currency was the hide of one fully grown male beaver - a buck. ItsACityOfApes (talk) 02:51, 16 January 2023 (UTC)