# What is €?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 23, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is/353825 "2006-04-23T03:51:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is/353825/21 "2006-04-23T21:47:45Z")

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€ = shift-option 2 on a Mac (US keyboard layout, that is).

Only semi-intuitive, that one. Nothing two-ish (or @-ish) about the euro, but it’s in a region of the keyboard where currency symbols in general exist ($ is shift-4; ¢ is option-4; £, the “other pound key”, is option-3 instead of shift-3 which is #; but lest too much consistent assert itself, ¥ is option-y and not in the “currency group” with the others).

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