Interesting piece of letterform history

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AbiRasheed

Very cool

Nick Shinn

Fascinating article, but it would have been better with an illustration of Pollock’s rendering of “ps” → “$”. I find that hard to imagine. Anyone…?

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Mark Simonson

Here you go:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volume_81/December_1912/The_Evolution_of_the_Dollar_Mark#/media/File:PSM_V81_D534_The_modern_dollar_mark_in_the_making.png

From an article in Popular Science, 1912. 

Andreas Stötzner

one of the last great mysteries of typography, an epic challenge to put all pieces of the puzzle together sensibly one day …
I bothered with this issue a few years ago, too. The p/s approach seems to be a hot candidate, as is the pictographic ‘pillars of Hercules’ theory.

Hope we’ll know some day.