Costa Rican colón
Also known as Costa Rican colon, CRC
currency of Costa Rica
Key facts
- Code
- CRC (numeric: 188 )
- Plural
- colones
- Symbol
- ₡
- 1 100
- céntimo (out of circulation)
- Freq used
- ₡1 000, ₡2 000, ₡5 000, ₡10 000, ₡20 000
- Rarely used
- ₡50 000 (Withdrawn, still exchangeable at Banco de Costa Rica)
- Replaced
- Costa Rican peso
- User s
- Costa Rica
- Central bank
- Central Bank of Costa Rica
- Website
- www .bccr .fi .cr
- Inflation
- -0.22% (2025)
- Source
- Central Bank of Costa Rica
- Method
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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. A colón is divided into one hundred céntimos.
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