ISO 4217 is an international standard describing three letter codes to define the names of currencies established by the International Organization for Standardization or ISO.

The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes (which are similar to those used for national top-level domains on the internet) and the third is usually the initial of the currency itself. So Japan's currency code becomes 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, all with wildly differing values.

The standard also defines the relationship between the major currency unit and any minor currency unit. Often, the minor currency unit has a value that is 1/100 of the major unit, but 1/10 or 1/1000 are also common. Some currencies do not have any minor currency unit at all. Mauritania does not use a decimal division of units setting 1 ouguiya (UM) = 5 khoums.

ISO 4217 includes codes for not only currencies, but also codes for precious metals (gold, silver, palladium and platinum; normally measured in troy ounces) and certain other entities used in international finance, e.g. Special Drawing Rights. There are also special codes allocated for testing purposes (XTS), and to indicate no currency transactions (XXX). These codes all begin with the letter "X". ISO 3166 never assigns country codes beginning with "X", so ISO 4217 can use "X" codes for non-country-specific currencies without risk of clashing with future country codes.

Supranational currencies, such as the East Caribbean dollar, the CFP franc, the CFA franc BEAC and the CFA franc BCEAO are normally also represented by codes beginning with an "X". However, the Euro is represented by the code EUR; although EU is not an ISO 3166-1 country code, it was used anyway, and in order to do so EU was added to the ISO 3166-1 reserved codes list to represent the European Union. The predecessor to the Euro, the European Currency Unit, had the code XEU.

Over time, new currencies are created and old currencies are discontinued. As a result, the list of codes must be updated from time to time. The ISO 4217 maintenance agency (MA), the British Standards Institution, is responsible for maintaining the list of codes.

Contents

1 Active codes 2 Obsolete Currency Codes 3 See also 4 External links

Active codes

1. AED United Arab Emirates dirham
2. AFN Afghan afghani
3. ALL Albanian lek
4. AMD Armenian dram
5. ANG Netherlands Antillian guilder
6. AOA Angolan kwanza
7. ARS Argentine peso
8. AUD Australian dollar
9. AWG Aruban guilder
10. AZM Azerbaijani manat
11. BAM Bosnia-Herzegovina convertible mark
12. BBD Barbadian dollar
13. BDT Bangladeshi taka
14. BGN Bulgarian lev (since 1999-07-05 )
15. BHD Bahraini dinar
16. BIF Burundi franc
17. BMD Bermuda dollar
18. BND Brunei dollar
19. BOB Bolivian boliviano
20. BOV Bolivian Mvdol (Funds code)
21. BRL Brazilian real
22. BSD Bahamian dollar
23. BTN Bhutan ngultrum
24. BWP Botswana pula
25. BYR Belarusian ruble
26. BZD Belize dollar
27. CAD Canadian dollar
28. CDF Congolese franc
29. CHF Swiss franc
30. CLF Chilean Unidades de fomento (Funds code)
31. CLP Chilean peso
32. CNY Yuan renminbi (PR China)
33. COP Colombian peso
34. COU Colombian unidad de valor real (added to the COP)
35. CRC Costa Rican colón
36. CSD Serbian dinar
37. CUC Cuban convertible peso (replaced USD as additional national currency in November 2004)
38. CUP Cuban peso (still in use)
39. CVE Cape Verde escudo
40. CYP Cyprus pound
41. CZK Czech koruna
42. DJF Djibouti franc
43. DKK Danish krone
44. DOP Dominican peso
45. DZD Algerian dinar
46. EEK Estonian kroon
47. EGP Egyptian pound
48. ERN Eritrea nakfa
49. ETB Ethiopian birr
50. EUR EU euro
51. FJD Fijian dollar
52. FKP Falkland Islands pound
53. GBP Pound sterling
54. GEL Georgian lari
55. GGP Guernsey pound
56. GHC Ghana cedi
57. GIP Gibraltar pound
58. GMD Gambian dalasi
59. GNF Guinea franc
60. GTQ Guatemalan quetzal
61. GWP Guinea-Bissau peso
62. GYD Guyanese dollar
63. HKD Hong Kong dollar
64. HNL Honduran lempira
65. HRK Croatian kuna
66. HTG Haitian gourde
67. HUF Hungarian forint
68. IDR Indonesian rupiah
69. ILS New Israeli shekel
70. INR Indian rupee
71. IQD Iraqi dinar
72. IRR Iranian Rial
73. ISK Icelandic króna
74. JMD Jamaican dollar
75. JOD Jordanian dinar
76. JPY Japanese yen
77. KES Kenyan shilling
78. KGS Kyrgyzstan som
79. KHR Cambodian riel
80. KMF Comoro franc
81. KPW North Korean won
82. KRW South Korean won
83. KWD Kuwaiti dinar
84. KYD Cayman Islands dollar
85. KZT Kazakhstan tenge
86. LAK Lao kip
87. LBP Lebanese pound
88. LKR Sri Lankan rupee
89. LRD Liberian dollar
90. LSL Lesotho loti
91. LTL Lithuanian litas
92. LVL Latvian lat
93. LYD Libyan dinar
94. MAD Moroccan dirham
95. MDL Moldovan leu
96. MGA Malagasy ariary
97. MGF Malagasy franc
98. MKD Macedonian (Former Yug. Rep.) denar
99. MMK Myanmar kyat
100. MNT Mongolian tugrik
101. MOP Macau pataca
102. MRO Mauritanian ouguiya
103. MTL Maltese lira
104. MUR Mauritius rupee
105. MVR Maldives rufiyaa
106. MWK Malawi kwacha
107. MXN Mexican peso
108. MXV Mexican Unidad de Inversión (UDI) (Funds code)
109. MYR Malaysian ringgit
110. MZM Mozambique metical
111. NAD Namibian dollar
112. NGN Nigerian naira
113. NIO Nicaraguan córdoba
114. NOK Norwegian krone
115. NPR Nepalese rupee
116. NZD New Zealand dollar
117. OMR Omani rial
118. PAB Panamanian balboa
119. PEN Peruvian nuevo sol
120. PGK Papua New Guinea kina
121. PHP Philippine peso
122. PKR Pakistani rupee
123. PLN Polish zloty
124. PYG Paraguayan guaraní
125. QAR Qatari rial
126. ROL Romanian leu
127. RUB Russian ruble
128. RWF Rwandan franc
129. SAR Saudi Arabian riyal
130. SBD Solomon Islands dollar
131. SCR Seychelles rupee
132. SDD Sudanese dinar
133. SEK Swedish krona
134. SGD Singapore dollar
135. SHP Saint Helena pound
136. SIT Slovene tolar
137. SKK Slovak koruna
138. SLL Sierra Leonean leone
139. SOS Somali shilling
140. SRD Suriname dollar (since 2004-01-01 )
141. STD São Tomé and Príncipe dobra
142. SVC Salvadoran colón
143. SYP Syrian pound
144. SZL Swaziland lilangeni
145. THB Thai baht
146. TJS Tajikistani somoni
147. TMM Turkmen manat
148. TND Tunisian dinar
149. TOP Tongan Pa'anga
150. TPE Timor Escudo
151. TRL Turkish lira
152. TRY New Turkish lira (effective on 2005-01-01 )
153. TTD Trinidad and Tobago dollar
154. TWD New Taiwan dollar
155. TZS Tanzanian shilling
156. UAH Ukrainian hryvnia
157. UGX Ugandan shilling
158. USD United States dollar
159. USN United States dollar (Next day) (Funds code)
160. USS United States dollar (Same day) (Funds code) (one source claims it is no longer used, but it is still on the ISO 4217-MA list)
161. UYU Uruguayan peso
162. UZS Uzbekistani som
163. VEB Venezuelan bolívar
164. VND Viet Nam dong
165. VUV Vanuatu vatu
166. WST Samoa Tala
167. XAF CFA franc BEAC
168. XAG Silver ounce
169. XAU Gold ounce
170. XBA European Composite Unit (EURCO) (Bonds market unit)
171. XBB European Monetary Unit (E.M.U.-6) (Bonds market unit)
172. XBC European Unit of Account 9 (E.U.A.-9) (Bonds market unit)
173. XBD European Unit of Account 17 (E.U.A.-17) (Bonds market unit)
174. XCD East Caribbean dollar
175. XDR Special Drawing Rights (IMF)
176. XFO Gold-franc (Special settlement currency)
177. XFU UIC franc (Special settlement currency)
178. XOF CFA franc BCEAO
179. XPD Palladium ounce
180. XPF CFP franc
181. XPT Platinum ounce
182. XTS Code reserved for testing purposes
183. XXX No currency
184. YER Yemeni rial
185. ZAR South African rand
186. ZMK Zambian kwacha
187. ZWD Zimbabwe dollar

Obsolete Currency Codes

1. ADP Andorran Peseta (Euro)
2. AFA Afghani (replaced by AFN)
3. AON Angolan New Kwanza (replaced by AOA)
4. AOR Angolan Kwanza Readjustado (replaced by AOA)
5. ATS Austrian Schilling (Euro)
6. BEC Belgian Franc (convertible)
7. BEF Belgian Franc (Euro)
8. BEL Belgian Franc (financial)
9. BGL Bulgarian Lev (before 1999-07-05 )
10. CSK Czechoslovakia Koruna
11. DDM Mark der DDR (East Germany)
12. DEM Deutsche Mark (Euro)
13. ECS Ecuador Sucre (replaced by USD)
14. ECV Ecuador Unidad de Valor Constante (Funds code) (discontinued)
15. ESA Spanish Peseta (account A)
16. ESB Spanish Peseta (account B)
17. ESP Spanish Peseta (Euro)
18. FIM Finnish Markka (Euro)
19. FRF French Franc (Euro)
20. GRD Greek Drachma (Euro)
21. IEP Irish Pound (Euro)
22. ITL Italian Lira (Euro)
23. LUF Luxembourg Franc (Euro)
24. MXP Mexican Peso (replaced by MXN)
25. NLG Netherlands Guilder (Euro)
26. PLZ Polish Zloty (replaced by PLN)
27. PTE Portuguese Escudo (Euro)
28. RUR Russian Ruble (replaced by RUB)
29. SRG Suriname Guilder (replaced by SRD)
30. SUR Soviet Union Rouble
31. XEU European Currency Unit (replaced by EUR)
32. YUD New Yugoslavian Dinar (replaced by YUM)
33. YUM Yugoslavian Dinar (Serbian dinar - CSD)
34. ZAL South African financial rand (Funds code) (discontinued)
35. ZRN New Zaire (replaced by CDF)
36. ZRZ Zaire (replaced by ZRN, then by CDF)

See also

• Currency (with a list by name)
• Table of historical exchange rates
• List of international trade topics

External links

• To look up both numeric and alphabetic ISO 4217 currency codes, see http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/currency_table.html.
• To convert between different currencies, see http://www.xe.com/ucc/ or http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
• Travelex Country and Currency Guide: [1] http://www.fx4business.com/services/EasyReference.html , [2] http://www.fx4business.com/services/qfer2.html , [3] http://www.fx4business.com/services/qfer3.html