>>What is the proper use of a dollar sign in a price display? In English, should we put it at the end or at the beginning? Also, what about French?
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>The general rule seems to be to display it in the way it would be used in the native country.
>So U.S. dollars would be $1,000,000 ; Euros 1,000,000€ UK Sterling £1,000,000 etc regardless of context in which they are being used....
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>Or use the other convention 1,000,000USD , 1,000,000EUR, 1,000,000GBP etc ?

I think that the € should precede the amount like the dollar and the sterling, although that varies per country

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign under Usage

If you use EUR/GBP/USD I've always heard that you can put the currency before or after the amount

USD 1,000.00
1,000.00 USD