Colón (currency)

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The colón (₡) is the currency of two Central American nations:

• Costa Rica (ISO 4217 three-letter currency code: CRC); see Costa Rican colón
• El Salvador (ISO 4217: SVC) – since 2001 used in parallel with the United States dollar; see dollarization, El Salvadoran colón

The Costa Rican colón is divided into 100 céntimos; the El Salvadoran colón is divided into 100 centavos.

In Spanish, the plural form is colones, but it is frequently rendered in English as colons (pronounced like colognes).

[edit] Symbol

The same symbol for colón (₡) is used in both El Salvador and Costa Rica. In Unicode, its code point is U+20A1, and the decimal representation is 8353.

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