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The US dollar was a form of currency used in the United States from at least the 19th century into the early 21st century.
Gunfighters in the Wild West were paid in dollars. In 1881, Ike Clanton payed Seth Harper a hundred dollars to help him kill Doc Holliday, then told his brother Pa to hire Johnny Ringo for five hundred dollars. A poster offered a 2,000 dollar reward for Holliday. (TV: The Gunfighters)
In 1927, Mr Giardano charged two dollars for spectators to watch Jack Harkness be killed and come back to life at his butchers shop in Little Italy, New York City. (TV: The Gathering) Ultimately, he charged ten thousand dollars for the Three Families to purchase Jack off him. (TV: Immortal Sins)
In 1930, Mr Diagoras offered a "dollar a day" as he recruited volunteers from Hooverville to work on clearing the sewer tunnels in Manhattan. Solomon branded it a "slave wage". (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
In 1938, Julius Grayle hired private detective Sam Garner for 25 dollars a day plus expenses. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)
In 1979, Hermann anticipated to Count Scarlioni that he would receive a hundred million dollars for the Mona Lisa, from seven buyers. (TV: City of Death)
After Miracle Day in 2011, Oswald Danes warned Alexander Peterssen that every passing second was a million dollars more as he intended to sue the Governor of Kentucky for wrongful imprisonment. (TV: The New World) Soon after, the legal campaign to reverse Danes' force majeure ruling quickly gathered over half a million dollars.
Jack Harkness observed that the CIA cleared out a whole plane to accomodate him and Gwen Cooper "all on the taxpayers' dollar". A wire transfer of fifty thousand dollars was made into the account of Esther Drummond. Rex Matheson received double this. (TV: Rendition)
Rex Matheson acquired change for a dollar at Venice Beach, Los Angeles. (TV: Escape to LA)
A hologram masquerading as Joseph Serf claimed that billions of dollars of research and development went into the SerfBoard. In response, Adriana Petrescu asked to herself where was her billion dollars. (TV: The Man Who Never Was)
Acting on behalf of Henry van Statten, Adam Mitchell paid 800,000 dollars for an alien musical instrument in 2012. (TV: Dalek)
As late as 2119, the Drum boasted about a trillion dollars worth of mining equipment. (TV: Under the Lake)
Garron sold Sydney Harbour to an Arab for fifty million dollars. (TV: The Ribos Operation)