`  == Response to Dove1950's comments ==  Dove1950, thanks for your comments on my changes and refutations.  I respond to your points below.   Dove1950 writes:  The recent edits by  have been reverted because they removed content. The arguments given above are highly unconvincing. To begin with,   there seems to be a misunderstanding as to the Spanish currency. There was never a currency called the peso used in Spain. All arguments based on the   assumption that there was are spurious. Second, there is clear evidence that the Mexican peso was an important trade coin in Asia and was adopted in   several states as the basis for the States' own currencies.  My edits did not remove content, they removed unsourced, and in a few cases, obviously wrong information.  It is not enough to call my arguments ``unconvincing``, if you would argue the contrapositive, you must do so.  First of all, I note I never claim that there was a currency called the peso in Spain.  You need to reread my arguments, because if you think I made that claim, you obviously didn't carefully read them in the first place.  The claim that the Mexican peso was the basis for US state currencies is obvious false because Mexico did not exist as a country with its own currency prior to the creation of the US Dollar.   Dove1950 writes:  The statement above ``When the HKD was established, its basis was in grams of pure sterling, with 1 HKD worth 24.44 grams of sterling, valuing it at 1   shilling.`` is nonsensical. Clearly there was a link to sterling but this does not disprove that the Mexican peso was the original basis.  As to the Japanese yen, what is a ``gram sterling``? Yes, there was a peg to the pound sterling, but that again does not mean that the Mexican peso did   not serve as the origin for the yen.  My apologies for my comment on ``gram sterling``, I assumed you were familiar with Imperial Measures and therefor would know what a gram of sterling silver was.  The HKD and Japanese Yen were clearly based on the Shilling which was worth one gram of sterling silver.  This was done at their conception which dispoves the Mexican peso as their original basis.   Dove1950 writes:  There is a need to clarify the events of 1785, which is why I originally asked for a citation. I'm afraid that the link Jolliette gave does nothing to    say one way or the other as to the origin of the first U.S. dollar.  Actually it does say ``one way``.  As the claim in the article is that this very law instated the Mexican peso as legal tender, and yet the law does not in fact state that, it disproves the claim that the Mexican Peso was made legal tender by this law.    ,   `