Odd Currency Symbols returned from FetchXML

While working with CRM2011 FetchXML, I came across a nasty issue when retrieving a currency field. I have done this successfully many times before, but for some reason this time I was getting multiple currency symbols in my raw XML result, ie:

$‎5,000

instead of the desired:

$5,000

Adding transactioncurrencyid to the fetch did not help, and replacing "$‎" with "$" directly also did not work. However, after toying about with the string in unicode for a bit, I came up with:

value = Regex.Replace(value, "\u200e", "");

This properly removed the funky symbols, leaving me with "$5,000". Likely something under the hood is causing an issue elsewhere, but this is a great workaround if you just need to get a properly formatted currency field without hacking deeper into the CRM platform.