Currency sign

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Graphic symbols are often used as a shorthand for currency names. Internationally, ISO 4217 codes are used instead of currency signs, though currency signs may be in common use in their respective countries.

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 12F34). 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.

Examples

• ¤ generic currency sign (e.g. used when the correct sign is not available)
• ฿ baht sign (used in Thailand)
• ¢ cent sign (a subdivision of dollars and some other currencies)
• ₡ colón sign (used in Costa Rica and in El Salvador)
• $ dollar sign (also used for many other currencies in the Americas, such as the different pesos, and formerly for the Portuguese Escudo as the cifrão)
• ₫ đong sign (used in Vietnam)
• € euro sign (used in participating European Union member countries (Eurozone), a few small non-EU European nations, and the regions of Kosovo and Montenegro)
• ₴ Hryvnia sign (used in Ukraine)
• ₭ kip sign (used in Laos)
• ₥ mill sign (a thousandth / one-tenth of a cent)
• ₦ naira sign (used in Nigeria)
• ₰ German penny (pfennig) sign
• ₱ peso sign (used in the Philippines)
• £ pound sign (also used for the lira)
• ៛ riel sign (Cambodia)
• ₨ rupee sign (used in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Mauritius), also rupiah sign in Indonesia
• ৲ rupee mark (Bengal)
• ৳ rupee sign (Bengal)
• ₪ new sheqel sign (used in Israel)
• ₩ won sign (used in both South and North Korea.)
• ₮ tugrik sign (used in Mongolia)
• ¥ yen sign (used in Japan and in China for the yuan)

Formerly used currency signs

• ₠ ECU sign (not widely used, and now historical; replaced by the euro)
• ₢ cruzeiro sign (formerly used in Brazil)
• ₯ drachma sign (formerly used in Greece)
• ₣ franc sign (formerly used in France. Most people preferred to write "FF" instead)
• ƒ Guilder former sign of the Dutch Guilder. The f comes from the former florin
• ₤ lira sign (formerly used in Italy, San Marino and Vatican City, and currently sometimes in Malta, also handwritten for GBP)
• ₧ peseta sign (formerly used in Spain and Andorra. Most people preferred to write "pts" instead .)