diff --git a/bibtex.cabal b/bibtex.cabal
--- a/bibtex.cabal
+++ b/bibtex.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             bibtex
-Version:          0.1.0.2
+Version:          0.1.0.3
 License:          BSD3
 License-File:     LICENSE
 Author:           Henning Thielemann <haskell@henning-thielemann.de>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
   location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/bibtex/
 
 Source-Repository this
-  tag:      0.1.0.2
+  tag:      0.1.0.3
   type:     darcs
   location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/bibtex/
 
diff --git a/src/Text/BibTeX/Parse.hs b/src/Text/BibTeX/Parse.hs
--- a/src/Text/BibTeX/Parse.hs
+++ b/src/Text/BibTeX/Parse.hs
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@
       (char '{') (texSequence '}') (char '}') <|>
    sequence
       [char '\\',
-       oneOf "_{}|'`^&%\".,~# " <|> letter] <|>
+       oneOf "_{}$|'`^&%\".,~# " <|> letter] <|>
    fmap (:[]) (noneOf [closeChar])