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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'').

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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.