Colón (currency)

Template:Short description Template:Redirect{{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B= Template:Ambox }}Template:Infobox currency sign 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 Template:Unichar and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut Template:Key press+Template:Key press. The correct way to write colones is ₡1, with the symbol before the number. This follows the standard for most currencies.