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This is the price printed plus the currency code for the currency of the country of publication. Common currency symbols (such as $) and abbreviations are not to be used. Additonal prices for other countries may be listed separated by a semi-colon. For all books the price is given in the major currency, not divisions of it (for example dollars, not cents).
For issues with no cover price, which were given away free, "0.00 FREE" is used. For issues with no cover price where the original price is not known, [none] is used. For issues with no cover price where the original price is known (from promotional material, for instance), the price in square braces is used, with a note in the notes field for the cover as to how the price was determined.
Comics with non-decimal cover prices (e.g. pre-1966 Australian and pre-1970 British comics) should be shown in this hyphenated format: "price as it appears on the cover [Pounds-Shillings-Pence GBP]" (or AUP for Australian pounds)
Note: There is no official code for Australian pounds; "AUP" is non-standard but used by the GCD and other sources.
For issues with different prices using the same currency, list the country code after the currency code.
For older currencies for which no ISO standard code exists we still use ISO-style codes. These are based on the codes used by Global Financial Data (full list in [1]), see also World's Coin & Currency and other Numismatics.

* 0.10 USD
* 1.50 USD; 1.95 CAD
* 0.00 FREE
* 2/6 [0-2-6 GBP]
* [2.50 CAD] (see notes)
* 3.99 EUR DE; 3.50 EUR AT; 1.50 EUR FR

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The following table includes some of the most common codes. The full list is linked above.

USD	United States of America Dollars	CAD	Canadian Dollars	AUD	Australian Dollars
EUR	Euro Member Countries, Euro	GBP	Great Britain (United Kingdom) Pounds	AUP	Australian Pounds
DKK	Danish Kroner	NOK	Norwegian Kroner	SEK	Swedish Kronor
NLG	Dutch (Netherlands) Guldens	DEM	German Marks	FIM	Finnish Markka
ITL	Italian Lira	FRF	French Francs	CHF	Swiss Francs
ESP	Spanish Pesetas	MXP	Mexican Pesos (pre 1993)	MXN	Mexican Pesos (post 1993)

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 * Comics with non-decimal cover prices (e.g. pre-1966 Australian and pre-1970 British comics) should be shown in this hyphenated format: "price as it appears on the cover [Pounds-Shillings-Pence GBP]" (or AUP for Australian pounds)<br>Note: There is no official code for Australian pounds; "AUP" is non-standard but used by the GCD and other sources.
 * For issues with different prices using the same currency, list the country code after the currency code.
+* For older currencies for which no ISO standard code exists we still use ISO-style codes. These are based on the codes used by [http://www.globalfinancialdata.com Global Financial Data] (full list in [http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/News/GHC_Histories.xls]), see also [http://www.daggarjon.com World's Coin & Currency and other Numismatics].
 * Examples: