Is it correct to put two strokes on an australian dollar sign?

[TheLoadedDog]

@jabiru

I always understood that the two strokes in the US $ symbol (can’t find a two-stroke symbol to use) stood for the letters ‘U’ and ‘S’ written on top of each other. Later usage dropped the loop bit at the bottom of the ‘U’.

My distinct recollection, although I can find no website to back this up, is that when Australia was converting to decimal currency, we were to use only one downstroke, to differentiate our dollar symbol from that of the US.

This is how I was taught it at school in the late 70s.

I have noticed over the subsequent several decades that the rule is not so strict as it was. I think nowadays Americans and Australians alike are more and more often seeing the $ symbol with either one or two strokes as it occurs in the mind of some faceless software designer somewhere, and that this has confused the issue. I think when I write it with pen and paper, that I actually vary.

[cantara]

I notice in Cunctators link that the educational material for the changeover indicates 4 documents with a double line symbol…

Why is it that the dollar sign does not appear on the currency? The name is spelled out, but the symbol is not shown (same for Canadian $).