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ISO 4217
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ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International

Organization for Standardization, which delineates currency
designators, country codes (alpha and numeric), and references
to minor units in three tables:

◾ Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list[1]

An airline ticket showing the price in
◾ Table A.2 – Current funds codes[2] the ISO 4217 code "EUR" (bottom
◾ Table A.3 – List of codes for historic denominations of left) and not the currency sign €

currencies & funds[3]

The tables, history and ongoing discussion are maintained by SIX Interbank Clearing on behalf of ISO
and the Swiss Association for Standardization.[4]

The ISO 4217 code list is used in banking and business globally. In many countries the ISO codes for
the more common currencies are so well known publicly that exchange rates published in newspapers or
posted in banks use only these to delineate the different currencies, instead of translated currency names
or ambiguous currency symbols. ISO 4217 codes are used on airline tickets and international train
tickets to remove any ambiguity about the price.

Contents
◾ 1 Code formation
◾ 1.1 X currencies
◾ 1.2 Treatment of minor currency units (the "exponent")
◾ 1.3 Currency numbers
◾ 2 Position of ISO 4217 code in amounts
◾ 3 History
◾ 4 Active codes
◾ 4.1 USD/USS/USN, three currency codes belonging to the US
◾ 5 Non ISO 4217 currencies
◾ 5.1 Currencies without ISO 4217 currency codes
◾ 5.2 Unofficial currency codes
◾ 6 Historical currency codes
◾ 7 See also

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◾ 8 References
◾ 9 External links

Code formation
The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1
alpha-2 country codes (which are also used as the basis for
national top-level domains on the Internet) and the third is
usually the initial of the currency itself. So Japan's currency code
is JPY—JP for Japan and Y for yen. This eliminates the problem
caused by the names dollar, franc and pound being used in
dozens of different countries, each having significantly differing
values. Also, if a currency is revalued, the currency code's last
letter is changed to distinguish it from the old currency. In some
cases, the third letter is the initial for "new" in that country's
language, to distinguish it from an older currency that was
revalued; the code sometimes outlasts the usage of the term
"new" itself (for example, the code for the Mexican peso is A list of exchange rates for various
MXN). Other changes can be seen, however; the Russian ruble, base currencies given by a money
for example, changed from RUR to RUB, where the B comes changer in Thailand, with the
from the third letter in the word "ruble". Thailand Baht as the counter (or
quote) currency.
X currencies

In addition to codes for most active national currencies ISO 4217 provides codes for "supranational"
currencies, procedural purposes, and several things which are "similar to" currencies:

◾ Codes for precious metals Gold (XAU), Silver (XAG), Palladium (XPD), and Platinum (XPT) are
formed by prefixing the element's chemical symbol with the letter "X". These "currency units" are
denominated as one troy ounce of the specified metal as opposed to "USD 1" or "EUR 1".
◾ The code XTS is reserved for use in testing.
◾ The code XXX is used to denote a "transaction" involving no currency.
◾ There are also codes specifying certain monetary instruments used in international finance, e.g.
XDR is the symbol for special drawing right issued by the International Monetary Fund.
◾ The codes for most supranational currencies, such as the East Caribbean dollar, the CFP franc, the
CFA franc BEAC and the CFA franc BCEAO. The predecessor to the euro, the European
Currency Unit (ECU), had the code XEU.

The use of an initial letter "X" for these purposes is facilitated by the ISO 3166 rule that no official
country code beginning with X will ever be assigned. Because of this rule ISO 4217 can use X codes
without risk of clashing with a future country code. ISO 3166 country codes beginning with "X" are

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used for private custom use (reserved), never for official codes. For instance, the ISO 3166-based NATO
country codes (STANAG 1059, 9th edition) use "X" codes for imaginary exercise countries ranging
from XXB for "Brownland" to XXR for "Redland", as well as for major commands such as XXE for
SHAPE or XXS for SACLANT. Consequently, ISO 4217 can use "X" codes for non-country-specific
currencies without risk of clashing with future country codes.

The inclusion of EU (denoting the European Union) in the ISO 3166-1 reserved codes list, allows the
euro to be coded as EUR rather than assigned a code beginning with X even though it is a supranational
currency.

Treatment of minor currency units (the "exponent")

The ISO 4217 standard includes a crude mechanism for expressing the relationship between a major
currency unit and its corresponding minor currency unit. This mechanism is called the currency
"exponent" and assumes a base of 10. For example, USD (the United States Dollar) is equal to 100 of its
minor currency unit the "Cent". So the USD has exponent 2 (10 to the power 2 is 100 which is the
number of Cents in a Dollar). The code JPY is given the exponent 0, because its minor unit, the Sen,
although nominally valued at 100th of a Yen is of such negligible value that it is no longer used.
Usually, as with the USD, the minor currency unit has a value that is 100th of the major unit, but in
some cases (including most varieties of the dinar) 1000th is used, and sometimes ratios apply which are
not integer powers of 10. Mauritania does not use a decimal division of units, setting 1 ouguiya (UM) =
5 khoums, and Madagascar has 1 ariary = 5 iraimbilanja. Some currencies do not have any minor
currency unit at all and these are given an exponent of 0, as with currencies whose minor units are
unused due to negligible value.

Currency numbers

There is also a three-digit code number assigned to each currency, in the same manner as there is also a
three-digit code number assigned to each country as part of ISO 3166. This numeric code is usually the
same as the ISO 3166-1 numeric code. For example, USD (United States dollar) has code 840 which is
also the numeric code for the US (United States).

Position of ISO 4217 code in amounts

The ISO standard does not regulate either the spacing, prefixing or suffixing in usage of currency codes.
According however to the European Union's Publication Office,[5] in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese
texts, the ISO 4217 code is to be followed by a fixed space and the amount:

a sum of EUR 30

In Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish the order is
reversed; the amount is followed by a fixed space and the ISO 4217 code:

une somme de 30 EUR

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History
In 1973, the ISO Technical Committee 68 decided to develop codes for the representation of currencies
and funds for use in any application of trade, commerce or banking. At the 17th session (February
1978), the related UN/ECE Group of Experts agreed that the three-letter alphabetic codes for
International Standard ISO 4217, "Codes for the representation of currencies and funds", would be
suitable for use in international trade.

Over time, new currencies are created and old currencies are discontinued. Frequently, these changes are
due to the formation of new governments, treaties between countries standardizing on a shared currency,
or revaluation of an existing currency due to excessive inflation. As a result, the list of codes must be
updated from time to time. The ISO 4217 maintenance agency (MA), SIX Interbank Clearing
(http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html), is responsible for maintaining the list of
codes.

Active codes
The following is a list of active codes of official ISO 4217 currency names.

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

United Arab
AED 784 2 United Arab Emirates
Emirates dirham
AFN 971 2 Afghan afghani Afghanistan
ALL 008 2 Albanian lek Albania
AMD 051 2 Armenian dram Armenia
Netherlands
ANG 532 2 Curaçao (CW), Sint Maarten (SX)
Antillean guilder
AOA 973 2 Angolan kwanza Angola
ARS 032 2 Argentine peso Argentina
Australia, Christmas Island (CX), Cocos
(Keeling) Islands (CC), Heard and McDonald
AUD 036 2 Australian dollar Islands (HM), Kiribati (KI), Nauru (NR),
Norfolk Island (NF), Tuvalu (TV), Australian
Antarctic Territory
AWG 533 2 Aruban florin Aruba
AZN 944 2 Azerbaijani manat Azerbaijan
Bosnia and
BAM 977 2 Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
convertible mark
BBD 052 2 Barbados dollar Barbados
BDT 050 2 Bangladeshi taka Bangladesh
BGN 975 2 Bulgarian lev Bulgaria
BHD 048 3 Bahraini dinar Bahrain
BIF 108 0 Burundian franc Burundi
BMD 060 2 Bermudian dollar Bermuda
BND 096 2 Brunei dollar Brunei, auxiliary in Singapore (SG)
BOB 068 2 Boliviano Bolivia
Bolivian Mvdol
BOV 984 2 Bolivia
(funds code)
BRL 986 2 Brazilian real Brazil
BSD 044 2 Bahamian dollar Bahamas
Bhutanese
BTN 064 2 Bhutan
ngultrum
BWP 072 2 Botswana pula Botswana
BYR 974 0 Belarusian ruble Belarus
BZD 084 2 Belize dollar Belize

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

CAD 124 2 Canadian dollar Canada
CDF 976 2 Congolese franc Democratic Republic of Congo
WIR Euro
CHE 947 2 (complementary Switzerland
currency)
CHF 756 2 Swiss franc Switzerland, Liechtenstein (LI)
WIR Franc
CHW 948 2 (complementary Switzerland
currency)
Unidad de
CLF 990 4 Fomento (funds Chile
code)
CLP 152 0 Chilean peso Chile
CNY 156 2 Chinese yuan China
COP 170 2 Colombian peso Colombia
Unidad de Valor
COU 970 4 [7] Real (UVR) (funds Colombia
code)[7]
CRC 188 2 Costa Rican colon Costa Rica
Cuban convertible
CUC 931 2 Cuba
peso
CUP 192 2 Cuban peso Cuba
CVE 132 0 Cape Verde escudo Cape Verde
CZK 203 2 Czech koruna Czech Republic
DJF 262 0 Djiboutian franc Djibouti
Denmark, Faroe Islands (FO), Greenland
DKK 208 2 Danish krone
(GL)
DOP 214 2 Dominican peso Dominican Republic
DZD 012 2 Algerian dinar Algeria
EGP 818 2 Egyptian pound Egypt, auxiliary in Gaza Strip
ERN 232 2 Eritrean nakfa Eritrea
ETB 230 2 Ethiopian birr Ethiopia
EUR 978 2 Euro Andorra (AD), Austria (AT), Belgium
(BE), Cyprus (CY) except, Estonia (EE),
Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (DE),
Greece (GR), Guadeloupe (GP), Ireland (IE),
Italy (IT), Kosovo, Latvia (LV),
Lithuania (LT), Luxembourg (LU), Malta

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

(MT), Martinique (MQ), Mayotte (YT),
Monaco (MC), Montenegro (ME),
Netherlands (NL), Portugal (PT), Reunion
(RE), San Marino (SM), Saint Barthélemy
(BL), Slovakia (SK), Slovenia (SI), Spain
(ES), Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM), Vatican
City (VA); see Eurozone
FJD 242 2 Fiji dollar Fiji
Falkland Islands
FKP 238 2 Falkland Islands (pegged to GBP 1:1)
pound
United Kingdom, the Isle of Man (IM, see
Manx pound), Jersey (JE, see Jersey pound),
Guernsey (GG, see Guernsey pound), South
GBP 826 2 Pound sterling Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GS),
British Indian Ocean Territory (IO) (also uses USD),
Tristan da Cunha (SH-TA), and British
Antarctic Territory
Georgia (except Abkhazia (GE-AB) and
GEL 981 2 Georgian lari
South Ossetia)
GHS 936 2 Ghanaian cedi Ghana
GIP 292 2 Gibraltar pound Gibraltar
GMD 270 2 Gambian dalasi Gambia
GNF 324 0 Guinean franc Guinea
Guatemalan
GTQ 320 2 Guatemala
quetzal
GYD 328 2 Guyanese dollar Guyana
HKD 344 2 Hong Kong dollar Hong Kong, Macao (MO)
HNL 340 2 Honduran lempira Honduras
HRK 191 2 Croatian kuna Croatia
HTG 332 2 Haitian gourde Haiti
HUF 348 2 Hungarian forint Hungary
IDR 360 2 Indonesian rupiah Indonesia
ILS 376 2 Israeli new shekel Israel, State of Palestine (PS)[8]
INR 356 2 Indian rupee India, Bhutan, Nepal, Zimbabwe
IQD 368 3 Iraqi dinar Iraq
IRR 364 2 Iranian rial Iran
ISK 352 0 Icelandic króna Iceland
JMD 388 2 Jamaican dollar Jamaica

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

JOD 400 3 Jordanian dinar Jordan, auxiliary in West Bank
JPY 392 0 Japanese yen Japan
KES 404 2 Kenyan shilling Kenya
KGS 417 2 Kyrgyzstani som Kyrgyzstan
KHR 116 2 Cambodian riel Cambodia
KMF 174 0 Comoro franc Comoros
KPW 408 2 North Korean won North Korea
KRW 410 0 South Korean won South Korea
KWD 414 3 Kuwaiti dinar Kuwait
Cayman Islands
KYD 136 2 Cayman Islands
dollar
KZT 398 2 Kazakhstani tenge Kazakhstan
LAK 418 2 Lao kip Laos
LBP 422 2 Lebanese pound Lebanon
LKR 144 2 Sri Lankan rupee Sri Lanka
LRD 430 2 Liberian dollar Liberia
LSL 426 2 Lesotho loti Lesotho
LYD 434 3 Libyan dinar Libya
MAD 504 2 Moroccan dirham Morocco
MDL 498 2 Moldovan leu Moldova (except Transnistria)
MGA 969 2*[9] Malagasy ariary Madagascar
MKD 807 2 Macedonian denar Macedonia
MMK 104 2 Myanmar kyat Myanmar
MNT 496 2 Mongolian tugrik Mongolia
MOP 446 2 Macanese pataca Macao
Mauritanian
MRO 478 2*[9] Mauritania
ouguiya
MUR 480 2 Mauritian rupee Mauritius
MVR 462 2 Maldivian rufiyaa Maldives
MWK 454 2 Malawian kwacha Malawi
MXN 484 2 Mexican peso Mexico
Mexican Unidad
MXV 979 2 de Inversion (UDI) Mexico
(funds code)

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

MYR 458 2 Malaysian ringgit Malaysia
Mozambican
MZN 943 2 Mozambique
metical
NAD 516 2 Namibian dollar Namibia
NGN 566 2 Nigerian naira Nigeria
Nicaraguan
NIO 558 2 Nicaragua
córdoba
Norway, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ),
NOK 578 2 Norwegian krone Bouvet Island (BV), Queen Maud Land, Peter I
Island
NPR 524 2 Nepalese rupee Nepal
New Zealand, Cook Islands (CK), Niue
New Zealand
NZD 554 2 (NU), Pitcairn Islands (PN; see also Pitcairn Islands
dollar
dollar), Tokelau (TK), Ross Dependency
OMR 512 3 Omani rial Oman
PAB 590 2 Panamanian balboa Panama
PEN 604 2 Peruvian nuevo sol Peru
Papua New
PGK 598 2 Papua New Guinea
Guinean kina
PHP 608 2 Philippine peso Philippines
PKR 586 2 Pakistani rupee Pakistan
PLN 985 2 Polish złoty Poland
Paraguayan
PYG 600 0 Paraguay
guaraní
QAR 634 2 Qatari riyal Qatar
RON 946 2 Romanian new leu Romania
RSD 941 2 Serbian dinar Serbia
Russia, Abkhazia (GE-AB), South
RUB 643 2 Russian ruble
Ossetia, Crimea
RWF 646 0 Rwandan franc Rwanda
SAR 682 2 Saudi riyal Saudi Arabia
Solomon Islands
SBD 090 2 Solomon Islands
dollar
SCR 690 2 Seychelles rupee Seychelles
SDG 938 2 Sudanese pound Sudan
Swedish
SEK 752 2 Sweden
krona/kronor

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

SGD 702 2 Singapore dollar Singapore, auxiliary in Brunei (BN)
Saint Helena Saint Helena (SH-SH), Ascension Island (SH-
SHP 654 2
pound AC) (pegged to GBP 1:1)
Sierra Leonean
SLL 694 2 Sierra Leone
leone
SOS 706 2 Somali shilling Somalia (except Somaliland)
SRD 968 2 Surinamese dollar Suriname
South Sudanese
SSP 728 2 South Sudan
pound
São Tomé and
STD 678 2 São Tomé and Príncipe
Príncipe dobra
SYP 760 2 Syrian pound Syria
SZL 748 2 Swazi lilangeni Swaziland
THB 764 2 Thai baht Thailand
TJS 972 2 Tajikistani somoni Tajikistan
Turkmenistani
TMT 934 2 Turkmenistan
manat
TND 788 3 Tunisian dinar Tunisia
TOP 776 2 Tongan paʻanga Tonga
TRY 949 2 Turkish lira Turkey , Northern Cyprus
Trinidad and
TTD 780 2 Trinidad and Tobago
Tobago dollar
TWD 901 2 New Taiwan dollar Taiwan
TZS 834 2 Tanzanian shilling Tanzania
UAH 980 2 Ukrainian hryvnia Ukraine
UGX 800 0 Ugandan shilling Uganda
United States, American Samoa (AS),
Barbados (BB) (as well as Barbados Dollar),
Bermuda (BM) (as well as Bermudian Dollar),
British Indian Ocean Territory (IO) (also uses GBP),
British Virgin Islands (VG), Caribbean Netherlands
(BQ - Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), Ecuador
United States
USD 840 2 (EC), El Salvador (SV), Guam (GU), Haiti
dollar
(HT), Marshall Islands (MH), Federated States
of Micronesia (FM), Northern Mariana Islands
(MP), Palau (PW), Panama (PA), Puerto
Rico (PR), Timor-Leste (TL), Turks and
Caicos Islands (TC), U.S. Virgin Islands (VI),
Zimbabwe (ZW)

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

USN 997 2 United States United States
dollar (next day)
(funds code)
United States
USS 998 2 dollar (same day) United States
(funds code)[10]
Uruguay Peso en
Unidades
UYI 940 0 Indexadas Uruguay
(URUIURUI)
(funds code)
UYU 858 2 Uruguayan peso Uruguay
UZS 860 2 Uzbekistan som Uzbekistan
VEF 937 2 Venezuelan bolívar Venezuela
VND 704 0 Vietnamese dong Vietnam
VUV 548 0 Vanuatu vatu Vanuatu
WST 882 2 Samoan tala Samoa
Cameroon (CM), Central African Republic
XAF 950 0 CFA franc BEAC (CF), Republic of the Congo (CG), Chad (TD),
Equatorial Guinea (GQ), Gabon (GA)
Silver (one troy
XAG 961 .
ounce)
Gold (one troy
XAU 959 .
ounce)
European
Composite Unit
XBA 955 .
(EURCO) (bond
market unit)
European
Monetary Unit
XBB 956 .
(E.M.U.-6) (bond
market unit)
European Unit of
Account 9
XBC 957 .
(E.U.A.-9) (bond
market unit)
European Unit of
Account 17
XBD 958 .
(E.U.A.-17) (bond
market unit)
XCD 951 2

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Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

East Caribbean Anguilla (AI), Antigua and Barbuda (AG),
dollar Dominica (DM), Grenada (GD), Montserrat
(MS), Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN), Saint Lucia
(LC), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)
Special drawing
XDR 960 . International Monetary Fund
rights
UIC franc (special
XFU Nil . settlement International Union of Railways
currency)
Benin (BJ), Burkina Faso (BF), Côte
CFA franc
XOF 952 0 d'Ivoire (CI), Guinea-Bissau (GW), Mali (ML),
BCEAO
Niger (NE), Senegal (SN), Togo (TG)
Palladium (one
XPD 964 .
troy ounce)
French territories of the Pacific Ocean: French
CFP franc (franc
XPF 953 0 Polynesia (PF), New Caledonia (NC), Wallis
Pacifique)
and Futuna (WF)
Platinum (one troy
XPT 962 .
ounce)
Unified System for Regional Compensation (SUCRE)
XSU 994 . SUCRE [11]

Code reserved for

XTS 963 .
testing purposes
ADB Unit of
XUA 965 . African Development Bank[12]
Account
XXX 999 . No currency
YER 886 2 Yemeni rial Yemen
ZAR 710 2 South African rand South Africa
ZMW 967 2 Zambian kwacha Zambia
ZWL 932 2 Zimbabwean dollar None (formerly Zimbabwe)

USD/USS/USN, three currency codes belonging to the US

The US dollar has two codes assigned: USD and USN (next day). The USS (same day) code is not in
use any longer, and was removed from the list of active ISO 4217 codes in March 2014.

According to UN/CEFACT recommendation 9, paragraphs 8–9 ECE/TRADE/203, 1996, available

online (http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec09/rec09_ecetrd203.pdf):

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8. In applications where monetary resources associated with a currency (i.e. funds) need not be
specified and where a field identifier indicating currency is used, the first two (leftmost)
characters are sufficient to identify a currency—example: US for United States dollars for general,
unspecified purposes where a field identifier indicating currency is present. (A field identifier can
be a preprinted field heading in an aligned document or a similarly-agreed application in
electronic transmission of data.)
9. In applications where there is a need to distinguish between different types of currencies, or
where funds are required as in the banking environment, or where there is no field identifier, the
third (rightmost) character of the alphabetic code is an indicator, preferably mnemonic, derived
from the name of the major currency unit or fund—example: USD for general, unspecified
purposes; USN for United States dollar next-day funds, and USS for funds which are immediately
available for Federal Reserve transfer, withdrawal in cash or transfer in like funds (same-day
funds). Since there is no need for such a distinction in international trade applications, the funds
codes have not been included in the Annex to the present Recommendation.

Non ISO 4217 currencies

Currencies without ISO 4217 currency codes

A number of currencies are not included in ISO 4217, because these currencies are: (a) minor currencies
pegged 1:1 to a larger currency, even if independently regulated (b) a legal tender only issued as
commemorative banknotes or coinage, or (c) a currency of an unrecognized or partially recognized state.
These currencies include:

◾ Alderney pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)

◾ Cook Islands dollar (1:1 pegged to the New Zealand dollar)
◾ Faroese króna (1:1 pegged to the Danish krone)
◾ Guernsey pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
◾ Isle of Man pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
◾ Jersey pound (1:1 pegged to the pound sterling)
◾ Kiribati dollar (1:1 pegged to the Australian dollar)
◾ Maltese scudo (1:0.24 pegged to the euro[13])
◾ Somaliland shilling (state of issue is viewed as de jure part of Somalia, exchange rate not fixed)
◾ Transnistrian ruble (state of issue is viewed as de jure part of Moldova)
◾ Tuvaluan dollar (1:1 pegged to the Australian dollar)

See Category:Fixed exchange rate for a list of all currently pegged currencies.

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Unofficial currency codes

The following non-ISO codes are, however, sometimes used commercially.

Code Num E[6] Currency Locations using this currency

GGP – 2 Guernsey pound Guernsey
JEP – 2 Jersey pound Jersey
Isle of Man pound
IMP – 2 Isle of Man
also Manx pound
KID[14] – 2 Kiribati dollar Kiribati
Somaliland (Both codes conflict with ISO-4217
SLS,
– 2 Somaliland shilling because SL stands for Sierra Leone. X should have
SLSH
been used for the first letter.)
Transnistria (The code conflicts with ISO-4217
PRB – 2 Transnistrian ruble because PR stands for Puerto Rico. X should have
been used for the first letter.)
TVD – 2 Tuvalu dollar Tuvalu
BTC,[15] Worldwide (BTC conflicts with ISO-4217 because
– 2 Bitcoin
XBT[16] BT stands for Bhutan.)

In addition, GBX is sometimes used (for example on the London Stock Exchange) to denote Penny
sterling, a subdivision of pound sterling, the currency for the United Kingdom.

Historical currency codes

A number of currencies were official ISO 4217 currency codes and currency names until their
replacement by the euro or other currencies. The table below shows the ISO currency codes of former
currencies and their common names (which do not always match the ISO 4217 names). These codes
were introduced in 1989 after a request from the reinsurance sector in 1988 was accepted.

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Code Num E[6] Currency From Until Replaced by

Andorran franc (1:1 peg to the
ADF ... 2 ? 1998-12-31 EUR
French franc)
Andorran peseta (1:1 peg to
ADP 020 0 ? 1998-12-31 EUR
the Spanish peseta)
ATS 040 2 Austrian schilling 1945 1998-12-31 EUR
Belgian franc (currency union
BEF 056 2 1832 1998-12-31 EUR
with LUF)
BYB 112 0 Belarusian ruble ? 2002-01 BYR
CYP 196 2 Cypriot pound 1879 2007-12-31 EUR
DEM 276 2 German mark 1948 1998-12-31 EUR
EEK 233 2 Estonian kroon 1992 2010-12-31 EUR
ESP 724 0 Spanish peseta 1869 1998-12-31 EUR
FIM 246 2 Finnish markka 1860 1998-12-31 EUR
FRF 250 2 French franc 1960 1998-12-31 EUR
GRD 300 2 Greek drachma 1954 2000-12-31 EUR
Irish pound (punt in Irish
IEP 372 2 1938 1998-12-31 EUR
language)
ITL 380 0 Italian lira 1861 1998-12-31 EUR
LTL 440 2 Lithuanian litas 1993 2014-12-31 EUR
Luxembourg franc (currency
LUF 442 2 1944 1998-12-31 EUR
union with BEF)
LVL 428 2 Latvian lats 1992 2013-12-31 EUR
Monegasque franc (currency
MCF ... 2 1960 1998-12-31 EUR
union with FRF)
MAF ... – Moroccan franc 1921 1960–1976 MAD
MTL 470 2 Maltese lira 1972[17] 2007-12-31 EUR
NLG 528 2 Dutch guilder 1810s 1998-12-31 EUR
1911-05-
PTE 620 0 Portuguese escudo 1998-12-31 EUR
22
1991-10-
SIT 705 2 Slovenian tolar 2006-12-31 EUR
08
1993-02-
SKK 703 2 Slovak koruna 2008-12-31 EUR
08
San Marinese lira (currency
SML ... 0 1864 1998-12-31 EUR
union with ITL and VAL)
Vatican lira (currency union
VAL ... 0 1929 1998-12-31 EUR
with ITL and SML)

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Code Num E[6] Currency From Until Replaced by

XEU 954 . European Currency Unit (1 ? 1998-12-31 EUR
XEU = 1 EUR)
AFA 004 Afghan afghani 1925 2003 AFN
AON 024 0 Angolan new kwanza 1990 1995 AOR
AOR 982 0 Angolan kwanza readjustado 1995 1999 AOA
1970-01-
ARL ... 2 Argentine peso ley 1983-05-05 ARP
01
1983-06-
ARP ... 2 Argentine peso argentino 1985-06-14 ARA
06
1985-06-
ARA ... 2 Argentine austral 1991-12-31 ARS
15
1992-08-
AZM 031 0 Azerbaijani manat 2006-01-01 AZN
15
BGL 100 2 Bulgarian lev A/99 1962 1999-07-05 BGN
1963-01-
BOP ... 2 Bolivian peso 1987-01-01 BOB
01
1942-11-
BRZ ... 2 Brazilian cruzeiro 1967-02-12 BRB
01
1967-02-
BRB ... 2 Brazilian cruzeiro novo 1986-02-28 BRC
13
1986-02-
BRC ... 2 Brazilian cruzado 1989-01-15 BRN
28
1989-01-
BRN ... 2 Brazilian cruzado novo 1990-03-15 BRE
16
1990-03-
BRE ... 2 Brazilian cruzeiro 1993-08-01 BRR
15
1993-08-
BRR ... 2 Brazilian cruzeiro real 1994-06-30 BRL
01
1960-01-
CLE ... Chilean escudo 1975 CLP
01
2003-07-
CSD 891 2 Serbian dinar 2006 RSD
03
1919-04- CZK and SKK
CSK 200 Czechoslovak koruna 1993-02-08
10 (CZK and EUR)
East German Mark of the GDR 1948-06-
DDM 278 1990-07-01 DEM (EUR)
(East Germany) 21
ECS 218 0 Ecuadorian sucre 1884 2000 USD
Ecuador Unidad de Valor
ECV 983 . 1993 2000-01-09 (no successor)
Constante (funds code)

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Code Num E[6] Currency From Until Replaced by

GQE ... Equatorial Guinean ekwele 1975 1985 XAF
ESA 996 Spanish peseta (account A) ? ? ESP (EUR)
ESB 995 Spanish peseta (account B) ? ? ESP (EUR)
GNE ... Guinean syli 1971 1985 GNF
GHC 288 0 Ghanaian cedi 1967 2007-07-01 GHS
GWP 624 Guinea-Bissau peso 1975 1997 XOF
1991-12-
HRD ... Croatian dinar 1994-05-30 HRK
23
ILP ... 3, 2 Israeli lira 1948 1980 ILR
1980-02-
ILR ... 2 Israeli shekel 1985-12-31 ILS
24
ISJ ... 2 Icelandic krona 1922 1981 ISK
LAJ ... Lao kip ? 1979 LAK
1963-07-
MGF 450 2 Malagasy franc 2005-01-01 MGA
01
MKN ... Old Macedonian denar A/93 ? 1993 MKD
MLF ... Mali franc ? 1984 XOF
MVQ ... Maldivian rupee ? 1981 MVR
MXP ... Mexican peso ? 1993 MXN
MZM 508 0 Mozambican metical 1980 2006-06-30 MZN
NFD ... 2 Newfoundland dollar 1865 1949 CAD
PEH ... Peruvian sol 1863 1985-02-01 PEI
1985-02-
PEI ... Peruvian inti 1991-10-01 PEN
01
PLZ 616 Polish zloty A/94 1950 1995 PLN
1952-01-
ROL 642 Romanian leu A/05 2005 RON
28
RUR 810 2 Russian ruble A/97 1992 1997-12-31 RUB
1992-06-
SDD 736 Sudanese dinar 2007-01-10 SDG
08
SDP 736 Sudanese old pound 1956 1992-06-08 SDD
SRG 740 Suriname guilder ? 2004 SRD
SUR ... Soviet Union ruble 1961 1991 RUR
SVC 222 2 Salvadoran colón 1892 2001 USD
1995-05-
TJR 762 Tajikistani ruble 2000-10-30 TJS
10

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Code Num E[6] Currency From Until Replaced by

TMM 795 0 Turkmenistani manat 1993- 2008-12-31 TMT
11-1
1891-07-
TNF ... 2 Tunisian franc 1958 TND
01
TPE ... Portuguese Timorese escudo 1959 1976 PTP
TRL 792 0 Turkish lira A/05 ? 2005 TRY
1992-
UAK 804 Ukrainian karbovanets 1996-9-1 UAH
10-1
UGS ... Ugandan shilling A/87 ? 1987 UGX
UYN ... Uruguay old peso ? 1993-03-01 UYU
VEB 862 2 Venezuelan bolívar ? 2008-01-01 VEF
Gold franc (special settlement
XFO ... 1803 2003 XDR
currency)
YDD 720 South Yemeni dinar ? 1996-06-11 YER
1966-01-
YUD ... 2 Yugoslav dinar 1989-12-31 YUN
01
1990-01-
YUN ... 2 Yugoslav dinar 1992-06-30 YUR
01
1992-07-
YUR ... 2 Yugoslav dinar 1993-09-30 YUO
01
1993-10-
YUO ... 2 Yugoslav dinar 1993-12-31 YUG
01
1994-01-
YUG ... 2 Yugoslav dinar 1994-01-23 YUM
01
1994-01-
YUM 891 2 Yugoslav dinar 2003-07-02 CSD
24
South African financial rand 1985-09-
ZAL 991 . 1995-03-13 (no successor)
(funds code) 01
ZMK 894 2 Zambian kwacha ? 2013-01-01 ZMW
ZRN 180 2 Zaïrean new zaïre 1993 1997 CDF
ZRZ ... 3 Zaïrean zaïre 1967 1993 ZRN
1970-02-
ZWC ... 2 Rhodesian dollar 1980 ZWD
17
1980-04-
ZWD 716 2 Zimbabwean dollar A/06 2006-07-31 ZWN
18
2006-08-
ZWN 942 2 Zimbabwean dollar A/08 2008-07-31 ZWR
01
ZWR 935 2 Zimbabwean dollar A/09 2009-02-02 ZWL

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Code Num E[6] Currency From Until Replaced by

2008-08-
01
2009-02-
ZWL 933 2 Zimbabwean dollar A/10 2009-04-12 (no successor)
03

See also
◾ List of circulating currencies
◾ Currency
◾ Tables of historical exchange rates
◾ List of international trade topics
◾ SWIFT codes

References
1. Current currencies & funds (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html)
2. Current funds (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a2.html)
3. Historic denominations (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a3.html)
4. SIX Interbank Clearing (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home.html)
5. Rules for expressing monetary units (http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-370303.htm)
6. Number of digits after the decimal separator.
7. "Unidad de valor real (UVR) – Banco de la República de Colombia" [Unit of Real Value (UVR)]
(http://www.banrep.gov.co/es/uvr). Banco de la República (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 November 2013.
8. According to Article 4 of the 1994 Paris Protocol [1]
(http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Gaza-
Jericho+Agreement+Annex+IV+-+Economic+Protoco.htm). The Protocol allows the Palestinian Authority
to adopt additional currencies. In West Bank the Jordanian dinar is widely accepted and in Gaza
Strip the Egyptian pound is often used.
9. The Malagasy ariary and the Mauritanian ouguiya are technically divided into five subunits (the iraimbilanja
and khoum respectively) the coins display "1/5" on their face and are referred to as a
"fifth" (Khoum/cinquième); These are not used in practice, but when written out, a single significant digit is
used. E.g. 1.2 UM.
10. "Current currency & funds code list" (http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html). Swiss
Association for Standardization. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
11. "Amendment of ISO 4217" (http://www.currency-
iso.org/dam/isocy/downloads/dl_currency_iso_amendment_148.pdf) (PDF). 17 October 2010.

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29 November 2013.
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External links
◾ The official list of ISO 4217 alphabetic and numeric codes (http://www.currency-
iso.org/en/home/tables/table-a1.html)
◾ ISO 4217 Maintenance Agency (http://www.currency-iso.org/)
◾ An older list of ISO 4217 alphabetic codes that contains some history of ISO 4217
(http://www.unece.org/cefact/recommendations/rec09/rec09_ecetrd203.pdf) (PDF file)
◾ Another list of numeric and alphabetic ISO 4217 currency codes
(http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/currency_table.html)
◾ A C++ library for handling ISO currencies (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccy)
◾ Position of the ISO code or euro sign in amounts (http://publications.europa.eu/code/en/en-
370303.htm#position)
◾ Typing a Euro symbol on a non-European keyboard. (http://www.starr.net/is/type/kbh.html)
Several methods are shown for the Euro and other special characters.

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