Oliver Pollock (1737, Coleraine, Ireland – December 17, 1823, Pinckneyville, Mississippi) was a merchant and financier of the American Revolutionary War, of which he has long been considered a historically undervalued figure. He is often attributed with the creation of the US Dollar sign in 1778.
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“Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn’t have as far to fall.”
—Jackson Pollock (1912–1956)