[barakm]

Not to be on dangling modifier patrol, but I’d be quite amused if Columbus thought discoveries from America were worth $1.5M dollars (in a currency that hadn’t even come around yet)

[dragonwriter]

To be fair, the headline doesn't say US dollars, and both the name and symbol were taken from the Spanish dollar, which was not unknown to Columbus.

[GauntletWizard]

It very much was unknown to Columbus - The first spanish "Dollars" were minted with New World silver.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler#Etymology / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler#Spain_and_France

[ornornor]

Yeah the title is a little hard to parse.