Currency sign

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A currency sign is a graphic symbol often used as a shorthand for a currency's name. Internationally, ISO 4217 codes are used instead of currency signs, though currency signs may be in common use in their respective countries. Most currencies in the world have no specific symbol.

When writing currency amounts the location of the sign varies by currency. Many currencies, especially in the English-speaking world, locate it before the amount (e.g., £50.00); some after the amount (e.g., 50.00 S₣); and before they were abolished, the sign for the Portuguese Escudo and the French Franc were placed in the decimal position (i.e., 50$00 or 12₣34). The standardized European default placement, used in absence of a national standard, is that (€) is placed before the amount. Practically all countries which had their former currency sign placed after the amount continue to use the old position with the new currency.

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Currency Symbols used today. From www.radicalcartography.net

[edit] Examples

¤ Generic currency sign (used when the correct sign is not available)
฿ Thai baht sign
₵ Ghanaian cedi sign
¢ Cent sign (a subdivision of dollars and some other currencies)
₡ Colón sign (used in Costa Rica and in El Salvador)
₫ Vietnamese đồng sign
€ Euro sign (used in participating European Union member countries (Eurozone), a few small non-EU European microstates, Montenegro, and the regions of Kosovo)
ƒ Aruban Florin sign. Formerly used for the Dutch guilder – see also florin.
₲ Paraguayan guaraní sign
₭ Lao kip sign
£ Pound sign (also used for the lira)
₤ Lira (may be confused with or used for the pound)
₥ Mill sign (a thousandth / one-tenth of a cent)
₦ Nigerian naira sign
₱ Philippine peso sign
P Botswana pula sign
R South African rand sign
₨ Rupee sign (used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Mauritius), also rupiah sign in Indonesia
- ৲ rupee mark (Bengal)
- ৳ rupee sign (Bengal)
R$ Brazilian real sign
$ Dollar sign (also used for many other currencies in the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong and elsewhere, such as the different pesos, and formerly for the Portuguese escudo as the cifrão; sometimes written with two vertical strokes)
₮ Mongolian tugrug sign
₩ Korean won sign (used in both South and North Korea.)
Ұ ¥ Chinese Renminbi yuan/Japanese yen sign
₴ Ukrainian hryvnia sign
₪ Israeli new sheqel sign
៛ Cambodian riel sign

[edit] Formerly used currency signs

₳ Argentine austral sign
₢ Brazilian cruzeiro sign
₰ pre-1945 German Reichsmark pfennig sign
₯ Greek drachma sign
₠ ECU sign (not widely used, and now historical; replaced by the euro)
₣ French franc sign (formerly used in France. Most people preferred to write "FF" instead)
₤ Lira sign (formerly used in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City, and currently sometimes in Malta, also handwritten for GBP)
ℳ pre-1945 German Reichsmark sign
₧ Spanish peseta sign (formerly used in Spain and Andorra. Most people preferred to write "pts" instead .)
ƒ Dutch gulden sign