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
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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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