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 Salvador colón.

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

The Spanish-language plural form is colones, but most English speakers user the simpler plural colons.

Symbol (₡)

Colones from Costa Rica and El Salvador have the same symbol, in Unicode its code point is U+20A1. the decimal representation is 8353.