Using "$" character with Oracle; getting "invalid column name"

I am running the following query against an Oracle database:
select price from my_table
where index_name = 'CGPR_C$'
and settlement_date = to_date('02/19/2001','MM/DD/YYYY')
The query runs fine in TOAD.
If I run this query from my java code, I get an "invalid column name" exception.
If I take out the "$" character, the query runs fine.
I've tried inserting the "$" in as unicode, escaping out the character, ||chr(36)||, and nothing works.
Please help!
Ashley

Look up your Oracle SQL documentation and find out how to use column names that would otherwise be invalid. Some databases allow you to put column names, table names, and so on in square brackets (e.g. [CGPR_C$]) but I don't know Oracle's syntax.

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