How is money made? And why do they call them Dollars?

Answer 1

How is money made:
- as you ask about the dollar, I assume you are interested in American money:
http://library.thinkquest.org/5395/How_money_is_made.html

Why do they call them Dollars (copied from http://www.wordorigins.org/wordord.htm )?
The origin of the almighty dollar is in what is now the Czech Republic. In 1519, a silver mine near the town of Joachimstal (literally "Joachim's valley," from the German Tal, meaning valley) began minting a silver coin called, unimaginatively, the Joachimstaler. The coin, which was circulated widely, became better known by its clipped form, the taler. In Dutch and Low German, the initial consonant softened to become daler. English adopted this form, eventually changing its spelling to the modern dollar.

In the American colonies, there was no standard currency. The coin that was in widest use was the Spanish Peso, known also as "Pieces of Eight." The English colonists informally assigned the name dollar to this coin. In 1785, when the Continental Congress established U.S. currency, they adopted dollar as name for the standard unit of currency, at the suggestion of Governeur Morris and Thomas Jefferson, because the term was widely known and was not associated with any form of official English currency. (Jefferson also coined the term disme, from the French dixieme, for a tenth of a dollar. Pronounced deem, it eventually became dime.)

The United States was the first nation to adopt an official currency named the dollar. In 1797, the Bank of England began minting "dollar" coins as bank-issued currency. Other nations that have adopted the name dollarfor their currency have done so in emulation of either the U.S. or this short-lived Bank of England practice.

And some other interesting facts about U.S. money can be found at:
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0774850.html

and about money in general:
http://www.arcytech.org/java/money/history.html

Answer 2

Look like you are too smart to ask Q like this and i have a good answer money made to buy thing if you try to find the meaning of money some were you will see it like it : Money is made too buy things , only but i will give you a answer and is made too buy things and use it in your life without money what will you do ? and you are asking why its called Dollars , Dollars is for US , you can find UAE money is called DHS all it not the same you can find this thing , sry if the answer is not good ....

Answer 3

We have money here in the UK but we don't call them dollars!

Did you know there were other countries out there?

Answer 4

Others have told you where they were made. They call them dollars which is a term derived from thaler, an old German currency from before 1900.

Answer 5

in the mints......money is made out of material extracted from old pairs of jeans......

i know on google you can find why they are called dollars...i think it comes from latin...they used to be schillings....

Answer 6

IN my garage on the printer.

It's better than calling them Rubles.

Answer 7

Money is made out of jeans it is put into a vat and melted down ect....ect...

Answer 8

by working

Answer 9

check this out. very interesting. I had no idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollars

Answer 10

It growns on trees