Costa Rica - 50,000 Colones - P-279 - 2009 dated Foreign Paper Money

50,000 Colones, P-279. Great purple coloring with butterfly and security strip on back!

The colón (plural: colones; sign: ?; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish.

The symbol for the colón is a capital letter "C" crossed by two diagonal strokes. The symbol is encoded at U+20A1 ? COLON SIGN (HTML ?) and may be typed on many English language Microsoft Windows keyboards using the keystrokes ALT+8353.

The colón sign is not to be confused with U+00A2 ¢ CENT SIGN (HTML ¢ · ¢), or with the Ghanaian cedi, U+20B5 ? CEDI SIGN (HTML ?). Nonetheless, the commonly available cent symbol '¢' is frequently used locally to designate the colón in price markings and advertisements.

The colón was introduced in 1896, replacing the Costa Rican peso at par. The colón is divided into 100 centimos, although, between 1917 and 1919, coins were issued using the name centavo for the 1/100 subunit of the colón. Colóns were issued by a variety of banks in the first half of the twentieth century, but since 1951 have been produced solely by the Central Bank of Costa Rica. The currency was subject to a crawling peg against the United States dollar from 2006 to 2015, but has been floating since then. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col%C3%B3n_(currency)

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