Currently, the International Organization for Standardization has introduced a three-letter system of codes ( ISO 4217 ) to define currency ( as opposed to simple names or currency signs ), in order to remove the confusion that there are dozens of currencies called the dollar and many called the franc.

# redirect ISO 4217

It had the ISO 4217 currency code XEU.

Financial rand had the ISO 4217 currency code ZAL.

The ISO 4217 currency code of gold is XAU.

* ISO 4217 – Currency codes

Exchange rate s display at a Bureau de change listing currency names in English and their ISO 4217 codes.

An airline ticket showing the price in the ISO 4217 code " Euro | EUR " ( bottom left ) and not the currency sign Euro sign | €

ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes ( alpha and numeric ), and references to minor units in three tables:

The ISO 4217 code list is used in banking and business globally.

ISO 4217 codes are used on airline tickets and international train tickets to remove any ambiguity about the price.

ISO 4217 includes codes not only for currencies, but also for precious metals ( gold, silver, palladium and platinum ; by definition expressed per one troy ounce, as compared to " 1 USD ") and certain other entities used in international finance, e. g. special drawing rights.

Consequently, ISO 4217 can use " X " codes for non-country-specific currencies without risk of clashing with future country codes.

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

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

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.

The ISO 4217 maintenance agency ( MA ), SIX Interbank Clearing, is responsible for maintaining the list of codes.

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

Gold, silver, platinum and palladium each have an ISO 4217 currency code.

* Moroccan dirham, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of Morocco

* São Tomé and Príncipe dobra, the ISO 4217 code for the currency of São Tomé and Príncipe

SDRs are denoted with the ISO 4217 currency code XDR.

* Pound sterling, but the actual ISO 4217 code is GBP

It had the ISO 4217 currency code ECV.

:* XXX, the code for " no currency " in ISO 4217

* Adangme language's ISO 639-2 code

* Amharic language, ISO 639-1 language code am

* Armenia, ISO country code AM

* Province of Avellino, a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2: IT code

* ISO 639-1 code of the Avar language

Australian English ( AusE, AuE, AusEng, en-AU < ref > is the language code for Australian English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref >) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia.

* Andorra, by ISO 3166-1 country code

* Aruba, by ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code

*. ai, the ISO Internet 2-letter country code ( ccTLD ) for Anguilla

* Azerbaijan, a Eurasian country, designated by the 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code

* Saint Barthélemy using ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code

* Austro-Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code BAR

* Belarusian language's ISO 639 alpha-2 code

* Belgium's ISO 3166-1 and FIPS 10-4 country code

British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.

* Buginese language, ISO 639 code " bug "

After many years of requests, the Blissymbolic language was finally approved as an encoded language, with code < tt > zbl </ tt >, into the ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 standards.

* Brunei dollar ( ISO currency code )

In general, the three-letter code uses the ISO 3166-1 country code for the first two letters and the first letter of the name of the currency ( D for dollar, for instance ) as the third letter.