Colón (currency)

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

The colón (₡) refers to two Central American currencies, both named for Christopher Columbus (Spanish: Cristóbal Colón)^[1]:

• the Costa Rican colón (ISO 4217 code: CRC^[2]), used in Costa Rica since 1896^{[citation needed]}
• the Salvadoran colón (ISO 4217 code: SVC^[2]), used in El Salvador from 1892 until 2001, when it was replaced by the American dollar^{[citation needed]}

₡
Colón
In Unicode	U+20A1 ₡ COLON SIGN
Currency
Currency	Costa Rican colón, Salvadoran colón
Category

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^[3] and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut ALT+8353.^[4]

The correct way to write colones is ₡1, with the symbol before the number. This follows the standard for most currencies.