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 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]".
- For issues with different prices using the same currency, list the country code after the currency code.
- 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
(end of definition)
Definition approved by Senior Editors (September 26, 2008). Different prices for different countries approved by Senior Editors (November 2, 2008).
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 | NOK | Norwegian Kroner |
ESP | Spanish Pesetas | SEK | Swedish Kronor | GBP | Great Britain (United Kingdom) Pounds |
EUR | Euro Member Countries, Euro | ITL | Italian Lira | DEM | German Marks |
FIM | Finnish Markka | NLG | Dutch (Netherlands) Guldens | DKK | Danish Kroner |
AUD | Australian Dollars | FRF | French Francs | CHF | Swiss Francs |
MXP | Mexican Pesos |
Current schema: Issues table, Price field
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