Euro
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"Placement of the sign is also an example of diversity. While the official recommendation is to place it before the number (but contraventing ISO recommendations to place unit symbols after numbers), people in many countries have kept the placement of their former currencies. This is the case in Spain and France, where people are reluctant to change to a system they find somewhat illogical (writing the currency before, "€2", but reading it after, as in "deux/dos euros"). In France, therefore, € 3,50 is often written as 3€50 instead, following the conventional style for the franc: (example 22F96). Recently people in France, Portugal, Spain and sometimes Belgium and Italy have started to write 3,75€ more often."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur…
Aha!