Cover Price
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- Required
- 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 issue as to how the price was determined.
- For issues where the the price listed in the indicia is different than the cover price, the cover price is used and the indicia price is included in the Notes field.
- 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 and Wikipedia - Historical currency codes.
- Examples:
* 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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