Colón (currency)

The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies, both named for Christopher Columbus ():

• the Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 code: CRC), used in Costa Rica since 1896
• the Salvadoran colón (ISO 4217 code: SVC), used in El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the American dollar

Symbol

The symbol for the colón is "₡", written as a capital letter C crossed by two diagonal strokes. In Unicode, it is at code point .

The correct way to write colones is with the symbol before the number (e.g. ₡1).

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