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A currency symbol (or currency symbols) is a special character, which is used as abbreviation for a currency. It is written depending upon country either after (12.80 "€) or before the amount ($12,80). With a way of writing before the amount no blank is mostly set between symbol and amount. In Portugal and France the currency symbols were used before introduction of the euro also as decimal separators in the amount (12$80).

Currency symbols, which apply to several currencies, in order to exclude confounding, also used together with letter contractions. In international traffic abbreviations are preferred according to ISO 4217 their clarity because of.

  • "¤ general currency symbol
  • Baht (Thailand)
  • $ Boliviano (Bolivia)
  • cent (for US and other cents one uses, not for the euro cent)
  • Coln (Costa Rica, El Salvador)
  • Cruzeiro (former currency in Brazil)
  • $ dollar (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei, Dominica, Ecuador, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (not on notes), Jamaica, young remote islands, dock one islands, Canada, Liberia, Mikronesien, Montserrat, Namibia, New Zealand, Palau, Salomonen, Simbabwe, Singapore, pc. of cement and Nevis, pc. Lucia, pc. Vincent and the Grenadinen, Surinam, Timor Leste, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, United States of America)
  • dollar (Hong Kong (only on notes of the bank OF China as well as the standard Chartered bank))
  • dollar (Hong Kong (only on notes the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation))
  • (Viet Nam)
  • Drachme (former currency in Greece)
  • "€ euro (Andorra, Belgium, Germany, Finland, France, French Guayana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Italy, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mayotte, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Saint Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Spain, Republic of Ireland, Vatikanstadt)
  • European currency (former money of account in Andorra, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, French Guayana, Greece, Great Britain, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mayotte, the Netherlands, Portugal, Saint Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Spain)
  • "ƒ Florin (Aruba, Netherlands Antilleses; former currency into the Netherlands)
  • franc (former currency in Belgium, France, French Guayana, Guadeloupe, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mayotte, Saint Saint Martin, Saint Pierre and Miquelon)
  • "ƒ gulden (Aruba, Netherlands Antilleses; former currency into the Netherlands)
  • Hrywnja (Ukraine)
  • Kip (Laos)
  • kr crown (Denmark, Sweden)
  • Lira (Malta, north Cyprus, Turkey; former currency in Italy, San Marino, Vatikanstadt)
  • M Marks (in Germany from 1871 to 1923 valid currency)
  • Mill (in former times for a thousandth of a US Dollar)
  • Naira (Nigeria)
  • new dollar (Taiwan)
  • new Lira (north Cyprus, Turkey)
  • new Schekel (Israel)
  • S. Nuevo Sol (Peru)
  • P peseta (former currency in Andorra, Spain)
  • $ peso (Argentina, Chile, Mexico)
  • peso (Dominican Republic of, Colombia, Cuba, the Philippines, Uruguay)
  • Pfennig (in former times used in Germany)
  • Pound (Egypt, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Guernsey, Insel one, jersey, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, pc. Helena, south Cyprus, Syria; former currency of the Republic of Ireland)
  • R edge (South Africa)
  • R$ material (Brazil)
  • Renminbi Yuan (China (except Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan))
  • Riel (Kambodscha)
  • Riyal (Iran, Yemen, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia)
  • rouble (Russia)
  • Rupie (India, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Seychelles, Sri Lanka)
  • Rupie (Bengali indications of Rupie)
  • Rupie (Gudscharati indication of Rupie)
  • Rupie (Tamili indication of Rupie)
  • (Mongolia)
  • Won (Korea)
  • Yen (Japan)

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