UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

Currency Type
Is Part Of
Financial
Has Parts  
Version 2.0 
Status Release 
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Date Agreed 1 January 2002

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Name

Currency Type
Description The type of currency used in a financial amount.
Business Format As per ISO 4217
Element Type Data Item
XML Schema
View whole schema document CurrencyType as XML
View definition CodeType as HTML
Validation
As per ISO 4217
Value
See Standard described below
DefaultValue
Owner DTG
Based On ISO 4217
Verification
Comment
  • Refer to BSEN 4217 for actual lists of codes and names Note: ISO standard no longer contains obsolete euro-zone currencies.
    (plus 'Milk Tokens' for DWP).