The History of the Dollar

[@mts4611]

Although I was familiar with the history of the dollar, I KNEW this would be well worth the listen. No one's delivery and mix of sarcasm is a match to this dude's lol. I love it. On another note, that was actually a lot of information put into 12 mins, which proves people can EASILY give pertinent informational detail in a video without dragging it out unnecessarily.

[@Luci-rv1hl]

Have you heard of Huggbees?

[@anidiquaojala1804]

💯❣

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

we have € Euro no $ US Dollar no £ briTish pound no ¥ japanese yen ...?

[@bjornolson6527]

“Show Me the Money!!”

[@susanrobinson910]

Ahh, Weird History strikes again! This channel is always answering the questions I had no idea I had! 😊

[@vonbarnes2700]

The American government has been making things complicated since the beginning of are country establishment " best quote ever

[@kennethobrien6537]

Our*

[@UnknownName5050]

Can’t even spell our.

[@simpleman5688]

Numbskull

[@SKa-tt9nm]

I’m sure you would have done much better than the founding fathers.

[@FendiYT]

@@SKa-tt9nmstop worshipling ppl u never met like they arent made equal to you

[@sarahelaine8]

I've been wanting you to do the history of the $2 bill, would love to see that! New series perhaps????🤔

[@svt80221]

well you see, when a mommy $1 bill and a daddy $1 bill fall in love...

[@Leash23]

What about a $3 bill?

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

@@Leash23 Mommy and Daddy 1 dollar bill had triplets.

[@mandiemoore3272]

Right it's just silly my husband brought one home for me the other day and I have it saved in my on my bedroom mirror and I have no idea why I saved $2 bills but I do and I think it's pretty common

[@mandiemoore3272]

​@@svt80221 SHUT UP!!!! You just made me burst out laughing.

[@grapeshot]

And just the think the Secret Service started out not to protect the president and his family but to go after counterfeiters.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

yea

[@SoutheastCoinsandCurrency]

The reason $5 bills don’t have Lincoln’s watermark is because people used to bleach the bill leaving just the paper, and printed $50 bills on the same paper, and cashiers could not tell the difference between Lincoln and grants watermark for some reason, so in 2006 they changed the design from Lincoln’s watermark to a big “5”

[@thomasleemullins4372]

I thought it was the one dollar bill without the watermark?

[@ATSFVentaSpurNscaler]

Until the late 1960s or early 1970s, the original U.S. dollar sign had 2 straight vertical slashes "||" over the "S" instead of the simplified solitary vertical slash "|" that we see today in "$". Some people have suggested that this original, double-slashed dollar sign came from overlaying a "U" atop the "S" as an abbreviation for United States, with the lowest curved portion of the "U" eventually being dropped from usage to leave only 2 vertical slashes across the "S". Over time both vertical slashes evolved into today’s single slash.

[@Bartolo.Gonzalez]

The Spanish eight or dollar Real was the first global currency, and in fact, it has that S || also. The first settlers came to use it many.

[@suemarshall6185]

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[@vntr4480]

PLVS VLTRA

[@Shinzon23]

Fun additional fact; Jachimsthalers were minted in the town called Joachimsthal, which had a long history of silver mining, and dumping the then worthless rock that was mixed up with the silver ore in tailings dumps. They called this worthless rock "pitchblende",essentially "lying/hard luck rock", which if you know your nuclear history, is what uranium and ultimately plutonium is refined out of. Another fun fact is Joachimsthal has a spa that has dissolved radiation particles in it built during the Radon Craze era that still exists (its safe, amount of Rads is less than you get taking a high altitude plane ride), and who in a very interesting coincidence has on its guest signature one for "Robert Oppenheimer" from the 20's... So the "Father of the Bomb" visited the town were Marie Curie first discovered Radon in the Pitchblende piles as a child... History is full of odd coincidences ain't it

[@yoyoglock4]

Love to see a new video from Weird History! Never disappointed 😎

[@Countstep0099]

Insightful video. I just want to know best how people split their pay, how much of it goes into savings, spendings or investments. I'm 27, and earn nothing less $150k per year, but nothing to show for it yet.

[@devereauxjnr]

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[@kbrock9146]

Just sitting here remembering the first year of this channel and seeing where it is now, makes me so happy.

[@nazfan01]

Ijust so happened to buy a huge lot of various coins at an estate auction about 5 years ago. When I got home and went through the coins it turned out I got hold of several very rare 1700s Colonial coins I was surprised that no one noticed them before putting them up for auction. I still have them to this day!

[@spookyskeptic4978]

You'd be surprised how little attention people pay to the change in their pocket. I used to do the accounting at a small grocery. The cashiers would set aside the "weird" coins or anything they couldn't identify. I swooped in and collected them every morning. I have a pretty cool collection. I don't think I'm paying for anyone's college, but there's some absolutely neat and bonkers stuff just sitting in tills or center consoles or old coats. And that fascinates me.

[@neoasura]

@@spookyskeptic4978 In the 80s my dad was a coin collector, and had this book showing how valuable coins were. As a kid I used to take any change I had and look through that book, and see if it has any of the symbols, letters, wheat back, etc. It was a fun hobby before the internet.

[@nazfan01]

@@spookyskeptic4978 - My son is special needs and has worked at a grocery store for 10 years now. Sometimes customers would give him tips but what they were really doing was giving my son "money they had no idea about" (in other words they figured he didnt know any better) - Most the time they were tipping him collectible coins. My favorite is the CoinStar machine. Ive noticed that CoinStar seems to reject silver coins quite a bit .... mostly Roosevelt dimes. I have tons of those alone. what amazes me is people just brring in coffee cans full of coins and dump them not knowing what they are dumping in. There were many time that Morgan silver dollars are just sitting there untouched. Many standing Liberty quarters. What I do miss out on the manager would show me a foam coffee cup full off coins he figured were worthless. He even gave me quarters that are still in circulation... 1976 Bicentennial quarters. There have been a few times that some silver Canadian coins would show up. Amazingly, one 19 30s Canadian silver was there and it turned out to be appraised at $500 because uit was a rare piece. So yes, I know what you are saying.

[@Usafpararescue96]

@@nazfan01 bicentennial coins are rare?

[@nazfan01]

@@Usafpararescue96 - No! That was my point, the manager of the store thinks they are either foreign coins or does not realize these coins are still in circulation. Either way, I take what ever he gives me

[@MeaningMatters355]

I worked for a money collecting contractor that picked up cash from businesses in those armored trucks. The amount of stuff I learned about money is insane. For instance, those fraud pens only detect for the paper but people bleach bills and print over them so they get through. Always inspect their other details! Another antifraud measure is that the shirts on the people on the bill are textured. So if you run your nail over it, it makes a scratching sound. Unfit money is sorted to be sent out to be destroyed and counterfeits are tracked based on the numbers all over the bill. Super interesting.

[@Selinkak]

I don't know how to go about researching this but now I really want to know if Massachusetts ever explicitly unrecognized wampum as acceptable currency. In fact now I wonder if any state has old currencies technically still legal currency simply cuz there isn't a law that actually unrecognized it written anywhere

[@IanSolano]

Really enjoyed the history of the dollar. How about covering British currency?

[@chromicapop4595]

Or the Yen😮

[@NASCARFAN93100]

They should cover The History of The Euro

[@tammygant4216]

or all money! What a fun idea for a series.

[@NASCARFAN93100]

@@tammygant4216 Ya know I agree

[@TacoBellMukbangRequested]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

[@MarkMeadows90]

Hello Baco Tell lol

[@gordygohard]

Dollar sign may have come from spanish currency depicting a scroll in the shape of an "S" and pillars on the one side of each coin. Due to spanish coin's abundance from new world gold and silver it became a common symbol.

[@chromicapop4595]

Also at one point spanish empire extended to new world😮

[@alicebas377]

i was taught that the $ came from people writing US dollar and over time the U and S were written on top of each other and then the bottom of the U was dropped....sign makers started to use only one line through the S to what we see today....i still use two lines when ever i write it!

[@Unknowngfyjoh]

It came from symbol from the mint of Potosi, which is where the Spanish minted most of their silver coins. I have been there and know this for a fact. I went to the mint museum they have there.

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

no idea whaT you speak of once again we in WEST EuropE have only € Euro no $ Dollar

[@andrealuisecandido1154]

ThaT has meaning we have only The Money of The Europe Union HeadquaTer France + Germany ITaLy

[@Jacobthejewela]

This channel reminds me of a show I used to watch on the history channel in the early 2000s called The Most with Mike Rowe. The topics and tone of this show are both similar to that one.

[@Luv_U_Maddie]

I absolutely love your channel ❤️

[@AKadir8]

I'm surprised you didn't mention how Nixon in 1972 got the dollar out of the gold-based standard to prevent it's value decreasing against other currencies, thus, creating the base of the economical crisis and inflation we suffer today.

[@zydian_]

Link a referens please. Not bcs I dont believe you but id like to read up on it.

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

Links?

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

@@zack3g Yes cause taking from the people works... Said nobody ever.

[@soybasedjeremy3653]

@@zack3g Ok Commie

[@Coltonmoore79]

@@soybasedjeremy3653 just Google "gold standard u.s. dollar" people shouldn't have to spoonfeed you info, you imbecile

[@btetschner]

I did not know that Spanish currency was so popular at that time. That Eye of Providence has always fascinated me. Fantastic video and narration! A+ video, my mother even watched it with me.

[@JP-en7cc]

afaik, it was the first world currency for international trade. Similar to what the US dollar is nowadays. Popularly known as the piece of eight

[@btetschner]

@@JP-en7cc Very interesting, thanks for the info.

[@nomecreona3829]

The Spanish legacy in the United States is enormous, but unfortunately it has been erased from history books in the States and in Anglo-Saxon world. The history of the United States is largely written in Spanish.

[@btetschner]

@@nomecreona3829 It's unfortunate that there aren't more cultural things like Spanish food, Spanish restaurants, etc. There just isn't a very prominent Spanish prescence in the U.S. right now, even though there was long ago.

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

​@Nomecreona Yep written in Spanish & still not erased... San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, all in Califonia, next to Arizona, nearby Nevada, Colorado & Montana... Only Texas 😠 should be Tejas!... but hey San Antonio still there 😊

[@Derek-no8fu]

Them old bills look beautiful. We should bring back that style.

[@daredevil6145]

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[@br_andn]

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[@jons.6216]

Chase Bank not only steals names but lots of undeserved money from customers!

[@stevenkobb156]

Fun video. FYI, there is no "American eagle." That is a bald eagle. 🦅

[@robswystun2766]

Also a spread eagle.

[@neoasura]

My high school fashion wardrobe begs to differ.

[@sallykohorst8803]

Great story.! Never really thought about this. Thanks for doing this.

[@proppin]

Paper money used to be quite large. They were nearly 7 1/2 inches long and called "horseblankets" for their size. In the late 1920's they were shrunk to the size people know today!

[@scottkrater2131]

In Europe, different denominations have different sizes, handy if you're blind, you can't tell the difference between a 1 and 100 in US currency if you're blind.

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

@@scottkrater2131 damn

[@Yangborder]

Because you could buy a fucking house with one dollar

[@3frenchhens818]

You forgot to explain "bits" -- like in "two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all for our team stand up and holler" and the door knock "shave and a haircut two bits." If I remember right -- and anybody out there help me if I'm wrong -- the bit is left over from the Spanish dollar that had eight bits/parts. In USA money, 2 bits = 25 cents, 4 bits = 50 cents, 6 bits = 75 cents, 8 bits = a dollar. A lot of people still say bits for prices and for insults: "Why, you two-bit crook, I oughta punch your lights out."

[@cadillacdeville5828]

I hope he's a professor or something that super engaging . He's awesome with the narrations

[@marcoperdomo283]

I really love your sarcastic humor, the history part it's just a bonus to me.

[@seffishestopal5950]

You learn something new every day

[@naturalnashuan]

I agree! Yesterday I learned that an interesting discovery was made about frogs. Since they have soft bodies they get thorns and splinters and stuff like that imbedded in them. The cool part: Some species have urine bladders that have cells that grow around the foreign object. That pulls the object into the bladder and they can pee out the objects!

[@SilverWealth_Draper_Mint]

Old Silver Bar Market is in its infancy and starting to pop

[@thomasbarker6833]

The '$' is not the first symbol used, and was originally a 'S' transposed on top of 'U' and stood for a 'unit of silver'. In 1792 the 'Sherman Coinage Act' determined that the money of the United States would be the US Dollar; and would have an exact size and shape and be stamped; and consist of 380 and 4/16 pure gains of silver.

[@thomasbarker6833]

See a book called: 'PIECES OF NINE'

[@Ravengerson3148]

I really like this dollar video it’s so packed with info. One thing though I’m pretty sure the in God we trust was added all over the place by Macarthy ( sorry not sure of spelling) during his big Red Scare.

[@naturalnashuan]

Yes, it had nothing to do with God, I hope that was a joke in the video. America added "In God We Trust" to money as a lame slap against communism. That's why "under God" is in the Pledge of Allegiance. As a nonreligious person I think it is time for it to go.

[@nobodyatall7438]

Great Documentary and narration.

[@emmamerritt6730]

The early dollar sign is a U and S overlapping. To show it is US currency. Over time the bend at the bottom has gone away to just one or two lines through the S.

[@Unknowngfyjoh]

False. The dollar sign $ comes from the symbol of the mint of Potosi. The largest silver mine in the world and where most Spanish silver coins were minted.

[@BangFarang1]

If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

[@Unknowngfyjoh]

@@BangFarang1 false. The $ comes from the stamp of the mint of Potosi, the largest mint in the Spanish Empire.

[@zach7193]

Man, this is something. A fascinating and interesting topic. I like this.

[@SWLinPHX]

I understand why there are not as many security measures on the Washington one dollar bill, but why is the design still the old one with the small portrait and not enlarged like every other denomination was in the late 20th Century? It clashes with the rest, and since they have to destroy old singles anyway why not redesign it to match the others??

[@401k.ElPiovra]

I never thought about this but. Gilbert Stuart designed the dollar and I live in providence and Gilbert Stuart has a school in providence and is one of its historical figures. Interesting... conspiracy or coincidence lol

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 💸 #WeirdHistory #USCurrency #USDollar #HistoryOfTheDollar

[@zippomustang05]

I love how in our constitution it states "no state shall use anything besides gold and silver coin for payments of debt"

[@BangFarang1]

The states shall pay in gold and silver, not their citizens.

[@gravewaxxsupercoven1980]

You almost completely missed the mark when explaining the symbolism on the one dollar bill. You could do an entire video on it.

[@josiebobcat]

I would love to see a video about company scrip. Seems like a weird thing in history. thank you for these videos. I love history and I love the jokes.

[@potatomatop9326]

Everytime i get a dollar it instantly becomes history.

[@bobross8786]

I'm well ahead of you on that 🤣

[@Thescienceguy-a]

To Everyone seeing this comment, please keep on pushing in life and never give up. Can't wait to see you successful one day and May God bless you! Amen 🙏🙏

[@Die-CastMetal]

Thanks brother! I’m trying but I gotta tell you it’s really difficult. Working three jobs and barely scraping by. Honestly, it’s really what makes life exciting. If there wasn’t a little bit of a struggle then life would be too easy and I’d probably just lay around and sleep all day.

[@Docmain3]

Boo! Religious BS!

[@johnreinburg859]

Thank you, I wish the same to you!

[@charlesrainey1076]

thank you so much! You're my comment MVP of the day!

[@mauriciocastillo2344]

Thanks!🤗 God Bless you too!

[@thomasleemullins4372]

I think that is both fascinating and informative.

[@raphaeldouglas9361]

Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.

[@josyvargas8326]

Yeah! I agree with you sir.If you want to be successful have the mindset of the rich, spend less and invest More. Don't give up your dreams.

[@eduardomarquee551]

@@josyvargas8326 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.

[@marywills5744]

@@eduardomarquee551 People wants to do what the 99% does but wants to get results that are fit for the 1%, but it doesn't work that way

[@evaluna8096]

@@marywills5744 Investment is the quickest path to financial freedom, the rich stays rich by spending like the poor yet investing! While the poor stays poor by spending like the rich yet not investing.

[@poltykelsey4890]

@@evaluna8096 That's true.. But Talking of investment! Is there any one who knows what one can invest in and be successful because I really need to invest to avoid rat race during retirement. do you have knowledge about any?

[@ididanoopsie9321]

Counterfeiting money is incredibly difficult and expensive, which is why the government assumes no one would counterfeit one dollar bills since the payoff would not be worth it

[@jeremyblakeney1518]

Great video, but you left out the spider in the corner of the 1 dollar bill lol I've always wondered why they put that on there

[@lefish5277]

I love this narrator so much lmao

[@JeighNeither]

Very interesting episode as usual Weird History, however U.S. paper money is fairly tame when compared internationally. Lots of paper money is being made from multiple materials, not just weaved, but embossed or embedded & some bills even have completely transparent sections now.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Good one! (No pun intended.) Now make a video about all the money printing and coin striking errors. Please?

[@Sh00terMcGavinXL]

I was always taught that dollar sign came from the scroll & pillars on the Spanish coins

[@philipberthiaume2314]

Due to the short lifespan of bills, Canada replaced its $1 bill with a coin and then shortly did the same with the $2 bill afterward. It's estimated that Canada saves millions of dollars a year in printing costs. While we're on the subject, canada also got rid of the penny. It's value low and it's costs relatively high, it was deemed not worth keeping it. And while we're on that subject, most Canadians don't use currency anymore for transactions, 77 vs 23%. Electronic transfer funds is so widely used that people who depend on handouts like charities, now need electronic tap readers to accept payment from debit and credit cards. Edit: with Canada's transfer to using e-transfer is instead of cash, the rate of fraud has dropped significantly. And because cash transactions are so low now, Canada got rid of the $1,000 bill which effectively killed black market activity.

[@ahotdj07]

That is pretty interesting. I learned a lot that I didn't know about our currency.

[@kashagroob8417]

I actually have one of those bags of shredded money mentioned at the end. I thought it was so cool when I was little.

[@mildredlackey1938]

Well this about the dollar bill was very interesting , thanks

[@simpleman5688]

“In God we trust” first appeared on 2 cent coins during the civil war. Preachers idea.

[@samuelw.3992]

The history of the inflation of the dollar should be next.

[@yaya999yaok]

Good video!

[@Backroad_Junkie]

After a lot of counterfeits were being made with a color copier, preventative measures were put into scanners and copiers (and printers) that won't let you duplicate money. You can still do if if you find an old scanner, but modern scanners will shut down...

[@Amen.ahmed1]

Topic everybody like to hear all the time. money

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Please do more Currency history

[@AnixCo1990]

Make silver money again!

[@AlexanderNicolasBurkard-cy1sh]

I’m so much proud of my night of American because Ben Drummond Franklin is that one united state of American he was one day. She is United States of America strong. Everything is great and official this facility. In fact, we control all the road with United States of American builders of the personpeople of the earth special of the Americans, so I was always proud of my United States of America

[@tanithjohnson2802]

Could you do a video on Australian money like how we came to have dollars. Australia did have British money when it was formed

[@BangFarang1]

Australia, New-Zealand, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Canada...

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

Think it comes from Spanish dollars? Wikipedia says they used them in New South Wales... they punched a hole in the middle to make them Australian 😂

[@epicproportionsmediaproduc6697]

You forgot to mention how they changed the color of the bills to reflect the colors used in the board game, Monopoly, as a way of mocking the public. Mono = one Poly = many E Pluribus Unem = "out of many, one"

[@leftturn8016]

My family stuck with gold, the dollar is play currency...

[@bigwestreviews4933]

Leaving a physical backing of the dollar was a mistake.

[@janayarroyo22]

This was so WEIRDLY AMAZING history ☺️

[@sierrajohnson717]

if you damage money, you can look up proper routes to have it replaced if you can salvage most of the physical bill. a bank can replace it if theres enough left of the bill, and if its questionable you can mail it/them away (the address is online) and they can deem if its replaceable or a total loss. REALLY hoping that lady on tiktok whose dog ate her hundreds knew this and she didnt just throw them out

[@naturalnashuan]

I found money that blew out onto the sidewalk through a hospital's ventilation fan. I picked the pieces out of shrubbery and taped the pieces back together. 3 out of the 4 five dollar bills were accepted at a bank, but I was happy with my 15 dollars.😊

[@Paraglidecrete]

dollar comes from Greek ταλλαροι , tallari , shekel comes from greek σικλος or σιγκλος , siklos - siglos , both Greek words mean buckets - specific volume containers used in trade . Money is related to ( alone ) monk monje monaco etc, When Zeus had a fight with Hera he hanged her alone from Olympus , and she became Ηρα μονία Hera monia - Hera the lonely ​ Her worship was later moved to Rome , the first mint in Rome was in the yard of her temple , monia became moneta monnaie , moneda moneten , ki etera (etc ) in the dialects

[@Seeker0628]

Look, the Narrator is definitely an Universal Treasure. He must be protected at all costs!

[@rab52764]

The original dollar sign had 2 vertical lines, not just one. So I was always told that it was originally U and S printed on top of each other. Eventually the curve on the U was dropped making the 2 lines on the S for the dollar sign. The lines merged over time, resulting in the $ mark.

[@midnightodellewest1999]

I was taught that as well.

[@BangFarang1]

If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

[@MeetThaNewDealer]

Cash rules everything around me, CREAM get the money dolla-dolla bills yall.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

The finger print on his color was new to me!

[@FinnSwede906]

I now invest in goldbacks, look into them! They have 5 denominations each with 24k fractional gold in the note and they can be exchanged for 🥇 coin on demand in any of the four states who are making them.

[@theodoregarcia8830]

Excellent video maestro

[@TheBlindPhotographer]

YAY! Weird History 😍

[@babshm]

Nest narrator! Ever!

[@babshm]

Oops! Best

[@missheadbanger]

You should do video on why the United States still uses the penny, it costs more to produce a penny then what it's worth.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

But pennies ... and all coins ... last way, way longer than paper money.

[@missheadbanger]

@@JohnnyAngel8 Lower denomination coins aren't going anywhere, pennies are the only coin that costs more to produce than what it's worth. The US needs to modernize its currency, the government would save 80 million dollars If they discontinued the penny. Polymer notes are more cost affective and last 3 times longer than paper bills, they also have less of an environmental impact

[@Akashnagil29]

Great voice bro.

[@ryanTDG]

Major sticking points in both the revolutionary war and civil war were the issuing and financing of currency.

[@Friendship1nmillion]

{ I'm watching from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 } I'm sure both Americans AND foreigners alike would *LOVE* the American currency to be as colourful ( in design ) as all the Australian bank notes . It'd make ALL the " green-back " easier to tell apart in a fraction of a moment . ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴

[@SaraH-il8lb]

No we like our money green

[@naturalnashuan]

Allegedly, Americans would think money was fake if it was more colorful. "Monopoly (board game) Money" is the term for that.

[@marcorock101]

That crypto jab 😂😂😂

[@mandiemoore3272]

I would really like to see a topic on comparison of money values around the world and how dollars or whatever they are in in different countries how they lose their value and about how the gold in the mint is actually what we owe not the paper dollar bill as Citizens

[@internetkilledthevideostar]

Surprised you didn’t talk about the tiny owl, perched on the dollar bill.

[@lisapop5219]

So nothing about how it used to be backed by gold until the early 70s? It then became a petro dollar. Imho, that's the most important thing to know about the dollar that every American should know

[@historyfunnfacts9204]

really good quality wish I could make it :P

[@kyleshiflet9952]

It's good to hear someone talk about the symbols on the 1 dollar bill without going full conspiracy theorist

[@naturalnashuan]

I was bracing for Masons to be mentioned too.

[@Billyjoelovesu]

History of Fort Knox

[@J.M.Atchley]

We were always taught that the dollar sign started as a U and a S written on top of each other. Slowly the bottom of the U was omitted making it just 2 vertical lines (which it was when I grew up in the early 70's). And through the computer age the two verical lines have changed to just one, and this is now changing to just tabs sticking up and down from the top and bottom of the S. Your theory of the P & S was never even a thought let alone a line of text in our text books.

[@BangFarang1]

If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

[@nicholasnarcowich9163]

Is the money, that is retired & removed from National circulation subtracted from the National befit? & if not, why not?

[@titacrafter4858]

10:10 is that a ten dollar bill counterfeited as a hundred? It shows hamilton’s portrait rather than franklins

[@mitchell.9632]

No mention on how the money supply when back into private hands with the bill passed in 1913? Or the First or Second bank when government used to be in control of the money supply.

[@RareKumiko]

Kinda surprised he didn't talk about the tiny Owl nestled just to the left of the "1" on the top right of the 1 dollar bill.

[@naturaldisaster2]

Gold standard worked

[@zafyrh95]

fool, gov keep gold, u keep piece of paper

[@Phil_A_O_Fish]

Ah, this is just so quaint and old-fashioned, isn't it? Especially when you consider that so many countries outside of the U.S.A. now have their currencies printed on polymers rather than on paper, don't they?