Cifrão

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Cifrão is the symbol of the former Portuguese currency (Escudo ISO 4217 PTE Cape Verdean escudo and Portuguese Timor escudo, that was in use until 1976 (TPE). This symbol is similar to the Dollar sign, but it is written with two vertical lines [\mathrm\!\!\!\Vert]. In the Unicode-Standard there is no difference between these two symbols, i.e. in a particular fontset a symbol with one or two lines can be used. It is placed as a decimal point between Escudo and centavos : e.g. [123\mathrm\!\!\!\Vert21].

In Brazilian currency (Real - Brazilian real), the symbol is used before the number and the decimal separator is a comma (,): [\mathrm\mathrm\!\!\!\Vert\;12345].

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