El Salvador - 1 Salvadoran Colón - P-133A - 1982 dated Foreign Paper Money

1 Colon, P-133A. Front and back shown. The colón served as the official currency of El Salvador from 1892 until its replacement by the U.S. dollar in 2001, a change that occurred during the presidency of Francisco Flores. The colón was divided into 100 centavos, and its ISO 4217 code was SVC. In Spanish, the plural form is "colones," and the currency was named in honor of Christopher Columbus, referred to as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish. The symbol representing the colón is a "c" with two slashes. Its Unicode code point is U+20A1, with a decimal representation of 8353. In HTML, it can be represented as ?. It is important to distinguish the colón sign from the cent sign (¢), which has a Unicode code point of U+00A2 (or 162 in decimal), and the cedi sign (?), which has a code point of U+20B5 (or 8373 in decimal). However, the cent symbol '¢' is often used locally to indicate the colón in pricing and advertisements.