. The Popular science monthly . lonies of the seventeenth and eight-eenth The Pillars of Hercules was the ancient nameof the opposite promontories at the Straits of Gibraltar. The Mexican 2 Letter of 1 792 in Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago; Private Letter Book in MSS. Div. of Library of Congress. 3 Notes and Queries, 5th S., Vol. 6, p. 434. 4 Standard Dictionary, Art. Dollar. 5M. Tbwnsend, United States, an Index, etc., Boston, 1890, p. and Queries (London), 5th S., Vol. 7, 1877, February 24; NewAmerican Cyclopaedia, Vol. VI., 1859, Art. Dolla
. The Popular science monthly . lonies of the seventeenth and eight-eenth The Pillars of Hercules was the ancient nameof the opposite promontories at the Straits of Gibraltar. The Mexican 2 Letter of 1 792 in Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago; Private Letter Book in MSS. Div. of Library of Congress. 3 Notes and Queries, 5th S., Vol. 6, p. 434. 4 Standard Dictionary, Art. Dollar. 5M. Tbwnsend, United States, an Index, etc., Boston, 1890, p. and Queries (London), 5th S., Vol. 7, 1877, February 24; NewAmerican Cyclopaedia, Vol. VI., 1859, Art. Dollar. EVOLUTION OF THE DOLLAR MARK 523 globe dollar of Charles III. exhibited between the pillars two globesrepresenting the old and new worlds as subject to Spain. A Spanishbanner or a scroll around the pillars of Hercules was claimed to be theorigin of the dollar The theory supposes that the markstamped on the coins was copied into commercial documents. ISToembarrassments were experienced from the fact that no manuscripts. Fig. 1. Pillar Dollar of 1661, showing the Pillars of Hercules.(From Century Dictionary, under Pillar.*) are known which show in writing the imitation of the pillars and the contrary, the imaginative historian mounted his Pegasus andpranced into antiquity for revelations still more startling. Thedevice of the two pillars was stamped upon the coins of the peoplewho built Tyre and Carthage ; the Hebrews had traditions of thepillars of Jachin and Boaz in Solomons Temple/ still further backin the remote ages we find the earliest known origin of the symbol inconnection with the Deity. It was a type of reverence with the firstpeople of the human race who worshipped the sun and the plains ofcentral Asia. The author of this romance facetiously remarks, fromthence the descent of the symbol to our own time is Strangeto sa}r, the ingenious author forgot to state that this connection of thedollar mark with ancient deities accounts for the modern
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