Colón (currency)

"₡" redirects here. For the cent, see ¢. For Ghana cedi, see ₵.

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

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.

Currency symbols (¤)

Circulating	؋ ₿ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ $ ₫ ֏ € ƒ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₾ £ / ₤ ₺ ₼ ₦ ₱ ៛ ₽ ₹ $ ₪ ৳ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥

Historic	₳ ₢ ₰ DM ₯ ₠ ₣ ℳ ₥ ₧ ℛℳ ₷

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