The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies: * the

Costa Rican colón The colón (plural: ''colones''; sign: ₡; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as ''Cristóbal Colón'' in Spanish. A colón is divided into one hundred céntimos. Symbol The symbol fo ...

(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 "''col ...

(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 +. {{DEFAULTSORT:Colon Currencies of Costa Rica Currencies of El Salvador Currency symbols