Funny Holidays - Dollar Birthday

The icon to represent the national currency of the United States was invented in 1778 by merchant Oliver Pollock A businessman from New Orleans presented to the public on April 1 the symbol with which he recorded the amount of revenue in his books - $ Pollock combined the letters S and P in the sign, which are used to abbreviate the Spanish peseta And, despite the fact that the American currency was officially approved as a national currency later, in 1785, April 1 is the birthday of the dollar There are several versions of the origin of the $ symbol Some researchers argue that the icon is a consequence of the letters U and S from United States superimposed on each other Later, the lower part of the U disappeared, and to save time, instead of 2 dashes, they began to use one, and the well-known symbol appeared Proponents of another version, taking into account the history of the black population of America, believe that the sign is an image of a slave’s stock (in English - slave) with a modified S Some researchers are convinced that the basis of the $ was the number “8”, rotated 180 degrees, ie infinity symbol The Continental Congress of the United States declared the dollar the national currency in July 1785 The first silver $ coins were minted in 1792 The modern paper one-dollar bill was designed in the 1920s Nicholas Roerich, and approved in 1928 The founding fathers of America were mostly Freemasons One of them, Benjamin Franklin, proposed using the symbols of the secret lodge of free masons in the form of state ones The mystic and artist N Roerich was invited to organically interweave Masonic signs into the image of American currency The Russian traveler, set designer, philosopher and writer arrived in the United States in 1921 to open the Master Institute of United Arts During these years, exhibitions of Roerich’s paintings were successfully held in New York, Chicago and other cities In parallel with the founding of the International Art Center "Crown of Peace" and other organizations, the artist was developing the design of a one dollar bill On it, Roerich depicted the all-seeing eye on the Egyptian pyramid, the Star of David and other occult signs of the Freemasons The banknote acquired its traditional green color in 1869 This year, a contract was signed between the US Treasury Department and the Philadelphia company Messers JM & Cox for the production of banknote paper with special watermarks The choice in favor of green paint was made due to the fact that it was relatively cheap, and the color itself evoked a sense of optimism and trust among people Since the beginning of the 2000s, banknotes began to acquire new shades - yellow and pink The material for printing the banknote is a mixture of flax (25%) and cotton (75%) fibers, which gives it high strength Since the introduction of the $ symbol, the appearance of the American currency has constantly changed It depicted men, presidents of the country, once a woman, the wife of D Washington, and never African Americans The first color of the banknote was black, but due to the ease of counterfeiting banknotes, it was changed to green in 1869 The Masonic Great Seal and other details of the image disappeared and reappeared The only thing that has always remained unchanged is the $ sign, whose birthday is celebrated annually on April 1st