Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Ancient Currency (ISO) Codes

Looking for historical ISO currency codes that no longer exist or appear to be barely documented anywhere online?  Here are a few obscure examples such as:

  • Mexican Currency
    • The Mexican Peso is decimalized into centavos and used from 1897 to 1992-1231 as currency code MXP.
    • From 1993 to the present the ISO currency code is now MXN.
  • Chilean Currency
    • Spanish Escudo used from 1818-0112 to 1851-0109 was XESE.
    • Chilean Peso/Conder used from 1851 to 1959 was CLC.
    • Chilean Peso/Conder used from 1960 to 1975-0929 was CLE.
    • Chilean Peso in use from 1975-0929 to the present is the CLP.
  • The Pennsylvania Proclamation Dollar used by the colony in 1709 was CPAP.  
  • The Danish Gold Krone of Account used from 1618-1713 on the Faeroe Islands was DKG.
  • The British West Indies Dollar used by the British Virgin Islands (Leeward Islands) in 1935-1959 was XBWD.

Wikipedia usually is your source of ISO currency codes, but a lot of this legacy data has disappeared from the web, and possibly can only be found on The Wayback Machine (archive.org) but only if you luck out in a search query. The Global Financial Data website used to host a spreadsheet which from all my hunting and pecking appears to be the best resource, now virtually invisible on the internet but you can find it via the Wayback at GHC Histories (downloadable spreadsheet).

Now I am not claiming the GHC reference document is the definitive answer but so far, the only place I could find out anything concrete about the CLC in Chile because everything else I searched only mentioned what happened after 1959, listing no ISO codes before that time.

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