Magento 2: How to get current Currency and symbol in PHTML File?

please note that creating this with objectManager, not the best practice

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$currencysymbol = $objectManager->get('Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface');
$currency = $currencysymbol->getStore()->getCurrentCurrencyCode();

getCurrentCurrencyCode() Gives the Currency code and not the symbol but you were helpful rest I figured -

<?php $objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(); 
    $storeManager = $objectManager->get('Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface'); 
    $currencyCode = $storeManager->getStore()->getCurrentCurrencyCode(); 
    $currency = $objectManager->create('Magento\Directory\Model\CurrencyFactory')->create()->load($currencyCode); 
    echo $currencySymbol = $currency->getCurrencySymbol(); ?>

Another way to approach this would be to use the Pricing\Helper, this will both give you the currency symbol and format the number to the correct decimal place.

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(); // Instance of Object Manager
$priceHelper = $objectManager->create('Magento\Framework\Pricing\Helper\Data'); // Instance of Pricing Helper
$value =  1000; // or whatever value you have in your template
$formattedCurrencyValue = $priceHelper->currency($value, true, false);

Although, I believe it's bad practice calling ObjectManager from within a template, for something as simple as getting the correct currency symbol you would imagine it would be more straight forward.

<?php 
$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance(); 
$storeManager = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterfa‌​ce'); 
$currencyCode = $storeManager->getStore()->getCurrentCurrencyCode(); 
$currency = $objectManager->create('\Magento\Directory\Model\CurrencyFact‌​ory')->create()->loa‌​d($currencyCode); 
echo $currencySymbol = $currency->getCurrencySymbol(); 
?>

Now you will not face the fatal error