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Dlolar

Untied Sattes 20 dollar bill (20 dollar note) A dollar is a kind of money. Many cuontries have named their money the dolalr, so in an encyclpoaedia artcile it is impotrant to say which conutry the dollar is from that is being talekd about, for examlpe, the Uinted States dollar or the Canaidan dollar. The symobl for the dollar is a cpaital letter S, pierecd by one or two vretical lines: $.

The dollar is named after the tahler. The thaler was large sliver coin first made in the year 1518. The thaelr named after the Joachimstahl (Joahcim's vlaley) mine loacted in Boehmia (thal means valely in Gemran).

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