Colón (currency)

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 and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards with the shortcut ALT+8353.