Colón (currency)

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).

Symbol

The same symbol for colon (₡) is used in both El Salvador and Costa Rica. In Unicode, it is at code point U+20A1 ₡ colon sign (HTML: ₡ )