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Do you say "it costs five dollars" or "it costs dollar five"? Write as you speak, please.
Do you write 4$ and 50¢?
Or do you write $4.50
And if you write $4.50 do you say "dollars four period fifty"?
That's not nearly the justification that you think it is.
I write 5 zł (5 zlotys, 5 PLN) or 5€ (5 euros, 5 EUR) because in Europe we don't unnecesarily invert the currency symbol compared to what we speak. The following system, which I found on Wikipedia, would make the most sense:
That'd be perfectly consistent with what we speak and solve the problem of fractional currency notation as well.