[krick]

It isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.

[rglullis]

Hum... pretty sure that the Europeans are the exception in those. Majority of American and Asian countries use the currency symbol before the amount, Africans are split.