<Tr> <Th> Central bank </Th> <Td> Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> This infobox shows the latest status before this currency was rendered obsolete . </Td> </Tr> <P> The colón was the currency of El Salvador between 1892 and 2001, until it was replaced by the U.S. Dollar . It was subdivided into 100 centavos and its ISO 4217 code was SVC . The plural is colones in Spanish and was named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish . </P> <P> The symbol for the colón is a c with two slashes . The symbol "₡" has Unicode code point U + 20A1, and the decimal representation is 8353 . In HTML it can be entered as & #8353; . The colón sign is not to be confused with the cent sign (¢), which has a code point U + 00A2 in Unicode (or 162 in decimal), or with the cedi sign ₵, which has a code point U + 20B5 in Unicode (or 8373 in decimal). Nonetheless, the commonly available cent symbol' ¢' is frequently used locally to designate the colón in price markings and advertisements . </P>

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