diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34a89efc32a..c2011ca24a4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Note that this project **does not** adhere to [Semantic Versioning](https://semv
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Added "$" to the citation key generator preferences default list of characters to remove [#12536](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/12536)
 - We changed the message displayed in the Integrity Check Progress dialog to "Waiting for the check to finish...". [#12694](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/12694)
 - We moved the "Generate a new key for imported entries" option from the "Web search" tab to the "Citation key generator" tab in preferences. [#12436](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/12436)
 - We improved the offline parsing of BibTeX data from PDF-documents. [#12278](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/12278)
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/preferences/JabRefCliPreferences.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/preferences/JabRefCliPreferences.java
index b350ebebb24..dd9832448bb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/preferences/JabRefCliPreferences.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/preferences/JabRefCliPreferences.java
@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ protected JabRefCliPreferences() {
         defaults.put(CONFIRM_LINKED_FILE_DELETE, Boolean.TRUE);
         defaults.put(KEEP_DOWNLOAD_URL, Boolean.TRUE);
         defaults.put(DEFAULT_CITATION_KEY_PATTERN, "[auth][year]");
-        defaults.put(UNWANTED_CITATION_KEY_CHARACTERS, "-`ʹ:!;?^");
+        defaults.put(UNWANTED_CITATION_KEY_CHARACTERS, "-`ʹ:!;?^$");
         defaults.put(RESOLVE_STRINGS_FOR_FIELDS, "author;booktitle;editor;editora;editorb;editorc;institution;issuetitle;journal;journalsubtitle;journaltitle;mainsubtitle;month;publisher;shortauthor;shorteditor;subtitle;titleaddon");
         defaults.put(DO_NOT_RESOLVE_STRINGS, Boolean.FALSE);
         defaults.put(NON_WRAPPABLE_FIELDS, "pdf;ps;url;doi;file;isbn;issn");