Several nations have decided in just the last two or three years that if the U.S. ($), the U.K. (£), and Japan (¥) can have their own currency symbols, not to mention the European Commission’s euro (€), so can they. So we now have the Indian rupee (₹), the Russian ruble (₽), the South African rand (R), the Thai baht (฿), the Costa Rican colón (₡), and others. (The symbol for the Armenian dram apparently can't be reproduced here.)
When I was a boy collecting postage stamps in the late 1940s, I noticed that Portugal was unique in using its currency sign ($, in this case for the escudo) for its decimal separator. Not $10.00, but 10$00. Did Portugal keep doing that until it replaced its escudo with the euro?
Several nations have decided in just the last two or three years that if the U.S. ($), the U.K. (£), and Japan (¥) can have their own currency symbols, not to mention the European Commission’s euro (€), so can they. So we now have the Indian rupee (₹), the Russian ruble (₽), the South African rand (R), the Thai baht (฿), the Costa Rican colón (₡), and others. (The symbol for the Armenian dram apparently can't be reproduced here.)
When I was a boy collecting postage stamps in the late 1940s, I noticed that Portugal was unique in using its currency sign ($, in this case for the escudo) for its decimal separator. Not $10.00, but 10$00. Did Portugal keep doing that until it replaced its escudo with the euro?
Fred Patten