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

50,000 Colones, P-279. Great purple coloring with butterfly and security strip on back! The coln (plural: colones; sign: ?; code: CRC) is the currency of Costa Rica. It was named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristbal Coln in Spanish. The symbol for the coln 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 coln 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 coln in price markings and advertisements. The coln was introduced in 1896, replacing the Costa Rican peso at par. The coln is divided into 100 centimos, although, between 1917 Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.