Colón (currency)
The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies:
- the Costa Rican colón (CRC), used in Costa Rica since 1896
- the Salvadoran colón (SVC), used in El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the American dollar
| ₡ | |
|---|---|
Colón | |
| In Unicode | U+20A1 ₡ COLON SIGN (HTML ₡) |
| Currency | |
| Currency | Costa Rican colón, Salvadoran colón |
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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 U+20A1 ₡ COLON SIGN (HTML ₡) and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut ALT+8353.
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