The Dollar Sign?

The grapes here have seeds in them.  How uncivilized!  Other than that, Buenos Aeres seems like a nice place.  The hotel rooms are surprisingly similar to hotel rooms everywhere.  Even facebook is the same. 

However, there are tell-tale signs that I have left my hobbit hole far behind.  For one thing, there’s the price tags.  I always assumed that the dollar sign - $ - meant just that, the “dollar” sign.  Apparently not.  Here the dollar sign means pesos.  I knew they used pesos in Argentina, but shouldn’t they have a sign for it?  Maybe a small p inside a circle or something?  Do the Japanese use the dollar sign for yen?  What about the Libyans?  Do they use the dollar sign for dinars?  If so, this upsets everything I believed about the dollar sign.  I assumed it was the universal symbol for the word “dollar”.  Now I have to accept that it means nothing more than “unit of currency”. 

My world-view is shattered.  See what comes of leaving the Shire?!