The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies:
* the
Costa Rican colón (CRC), used in Costa Rica since 1896
* the
Salvadoran colón
The colón was the currency of El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the U.S. dollar during the presidency of Francisco Flores. The colón was subdivided into 100 centavos and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. The plural is "''co ...
(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
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard,The formal version reference is is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, ...
, it is at code point and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut +.
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