American Money

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Dollar:1- the standard unit of money in the US, Canada, Australia, and

some other countries, divided into 100 cents: symbol $.2- the dollar: the value of US money in relation to the money of

other countries. E.g: The pound has risen against the dollar (increased in value in relation to the dollar).

Dollarization: technical a situation in which countries outside the US want to use the dollar rather than their own country’s money.

LONGMAN, Dictionary. Dictionary of Contemporary English. England,2005.

The origin of dollarThe name dollar comes from thaler- abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, a coin type from Bohemia in Germany where some of the first coins where minted in 1518 ( In German thaler refers to valley).

The dollar signsUSD or US$ - means United States Dollar

$ - this sign refers to the Spanish American Peso: “pS”, that is the Spanish Dollar as it was known in British North America. These late eighteenth and nineteenth century manuscripts show that the s gradually came to be written over the p developing a close equivalent to the $ mark.

Dollar in ShakespeareThere are interesting examples of the use of the word dollar in two of Shakespeares’s plays:

Macbeth Act I, Scene 2

Rosse:"That nowSweno, the Norway's King, craves composition;Nor would we deign him burial of his menTill he disbursed at Saint Colme's InchTen thousand dollars to our general use."

The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1

Gonzalo:"When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, Comes to th' entertainer -Sebastian:"A dollar."Gonzalo:"Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken truer than you purpos'd”.

The last remark by Gonzalo was, of course, a pun since "dolour" is an old-fashioned word for pain or grief, like the modern Spanish word dolor, which also means pain.

Shakespeare's use of the word "dollar" in Macbeth was anachronistic since the real Macbeth probably died in the middle of the 11th century, nearly 500 years before the first thalers were minted.

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E PLURIBUS UNUM

1 Cent, as known as PennyThe Penny has been produced since 1909.

The colloquial term penny derives from the British coin of the same name, the pre-decimal version of which had a similar value.

In American English, pennies is the plural form, other plural forms pence and pee (standard use in British English) are rarely, if ever, used.

Design of Abraham Lincoln on the obverse.

Design of the Union Shield on the reverse.

Strings of words, Clusters, Idioms, whatever you want to call them with the word “Penny”!

A penny for your thoughts = used to ask someone who is silent what they are thinking about.

The penny (has) dropped = used to say that someone has finally understood something they had not understood before.

Turn up like a bad penny = someone you dislike turns up like a bad penny, they appear when they are not wanted.

5 Cents, as known as NickelThe nickel has been produced since 1866.

Applying the term "nickel" to a coin precedes the usage of five-cent pieces made from nickel alloy.The term was originally applied to the 1857–1858 Flying Eagle cent and the Indian Head cent coin from 1859 to 1864, which were composed of 12% nickel, 88% copper. Throughout the Civil War these cents were referred to as "nickels" or "nicks" from their metal content.

Design of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse.

Monticello on the reverse is a National Historic Landmark just outside Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. It was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia.

Nickel

Copper

10 Cents, as known as DimeThe dime has been produced since 1796.

The term dime comes from old French "disme“, meaning "tithe" or "tenth part", from the Latin decima.

Design of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the obverse.

On the reverse, elements of a torch, olive branch, and oak branch symbolized, respectively, liberty, peace, and victory.

Strings of words, Clusters, Idioms, whatever you want to call them with the word “Dime”!

A dime a dozen = very common and not valuable. Ex.: “PhDs are a dime a dozen nowadays.”

Dime store = a shop that sells many different kinds of cheap goods, especially for the house.

25 Cents, as known as QuarterThe quarter has been produced since 1796.

A quarter dollar, commonly shortened to quarter, is a coin worth ¼ of a United States dollar or 25 cent.

Design of George Washington on the obverse.

Vicksburg National Military Park on the reverse, which preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg, waged from May 18 to July 4, 1863.

25 Cents, as known as Quarter

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