List of currencies and their 3 digit codes as defined by ISO 4217. The data provided here is the consolidation of Table A.1 "Current currency & funds code list" and Table A.3 "Historic denominations".
Note that the ISO page offers pay-for PDFs but also links to http://www.currency-iso.org/en/home/tables.html which does provide them in machine readable form freely.
The data provided (see data/codes.csv) in this data package provides a consolidated list of currency (and funds) codes by combining these two separate tables:
- ISO Tables A.1 - Current Currencies and Funds
- ISO Tables A.3 - List of codes for historic denominations of currencies & funds
The script requires recode package to be istalled. Install it by running:
sudo apt install recode
Run the following script to download and convert the data from XML to CSV:
cd scripts/
./runall.sh
The raw XML files are stored in ./archive. The cleaned data are
./data/codes-all.csv.
The current tables have a published date of 28 March 2014 (as indicated in the XML files).
Placing in the Public Domain under the Public Domain Dedication and License. The original site states no restriction on use and the data is small and completely factual.
