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]" (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.
- 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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