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Marks of money and trade: currency signs, intellectual-property and licensing marks, hallmarks and assay marks, and the identifiers printed on traded goods.
Here when the mark concerns ownership, value or exchange. A conformity mark that permits a product to be sold is filed under packaging, because it addresses the regulator rather than the buyer.
Officially standardised — currency signs through Unicode and ISO 4217, IP marks through treaty and statute — with a documented history behind the older hallmarking systems.
All 198symbols in this domain, A–Z.
A band over a cork.
Per cent, drawn differently.
A map fill marking cultivated ground.
A dated mark applied at the office of delivery.
A town struck into metal.
A small emblem identifying which office tested and marked the article.
A figure in a circle requiring the creator be credited.
A capital letter B with a single vertical stroke rising above and below it, the sign for the Thai baht.
The unique code identifying one individual note.
Fractions of a rupee as glyphs.
A counting unit of four.
A small block of stamps bound into a booklet.
A label claiming a book.
A fixed stone or marker defining a legal boundary.
A seated figure of Britannia marking the higher 958 silver standard.
999.9, or 24K — how pure the metal is, stamped on the bar.
A pre-arranged indicator paid by the recipient.
An animal divided by lines.
A T-shaped mark on a plan showing who maintains a boundary.
A number naming a movement.
Numbers marking gold purity — 375, 585, 750, 916 — and what carats mean.
A number burnt into oak.
A circled CC with a zero, waiving rights as far as the law allows.
A mark showing mail has been examined and resealed.
A name pressed into the crust.
Two parallel lines restricting how a cheque may be paid.
The letters CCC in a rounded frame.
Complex numeral characters used on cheques.
A number or letter that is a manufacturer's code, not a measurement.
A stamp issued in a roll with two plain edges.
Letters and a number rating a coin's preservation.
D G REG F D — the Latin round the rim, expanded.
Seven sides, a bimetallic ring, a scalloped edge — denomination by feel.
A measurement in inches or centimetres, unlike most garment sizes.
Optional extra marks struck to mark a national occasion.
A balance-scale mark recognised across the Vienna Convention countries.
A seedling, and a condition.
Four arcs of increasing size, marking a card or terminal that supports contactless payment.
A sheet marking identifying a printing for accounting.
A woodland fill marking cut-and-regrown stems.
A reversed C in a circle, standing for permissions passed on.
The symbol, a year and a name — and why it is no longer required.
A capital C inside a circle (©), used to indicate a claim of copyright in a work.
A statement of where a product was made or last changed.
Venezuela's standards seal.
Vietnam's regulated-product mark.
Two letters C inside a circle, marking a work offered under a CC licence.
Two banknotes or currency signs with arrows, marking a bureau de change.
Where the sign goes, and why the answer is different in every country.
Whether the sign goes before or after the amount.
A green label declaring the contents and value of an international item.
A single letter recording the year of assay — and readable only per office.
A point or a comma, depending on the country.
A prefix and suffix giving a permanent handle to a document.
A lower-case letter d crossed by a short horizontal stroke through its ascender, with a line beneath, the sign for the Vietnamese đồng.
A label certifying a maker.
A head meaning the tax was paid.
A monarch's head marking that excise duty had been paid.
Bars of varying width encoding a product number.
Words or a pattern cut into a coin's rim.
A code stamped on a shell.
A scatter of small rings on a banknote that scanners refuse to copy.
A pattern of vertical bars orienting mail for machines.
A blue and green circle enclosing a figure holding up an arm, certifying trading terms.
A number in a shaped surround giving the metal's purity in parts per thousand.
A cancellation applied on a stamp's first day of sale.
A fish and a tick, in blue.
A number identifying the holding an animal belongs to.
An indicator for mail sent by serving personnel.
A number identifying a management unit of woodland.
A private handstamp on mail carried outside the post.
A printed impression showing postage paid by machine rather than by stamp.
A mark made by chilling rather than burning.
A number tying a stone to a report.
The seal the bank holds.
Lines a hand cannot draw.
Two stamps joined across a blank margin.
Circumference measurements dressed up as sizes.
An eagle marking national origin.
A coin recarved by hand.
A rounded letter S laid on its side with an open curve, crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Ukrainian hryvnia.
A country code and a checksum.
Bolivia's standards seal.
Colombia's conformity seal.
A stamp issued without perforations.
A distinct assay office mark showing an article was hallmarked on import.
A number distinguishing one animal within a holding.
Ecuador's standards seal.
Brazil's compulsory certification mark.
Raised ink a reader can feel on a banknote.
Costa Rica's standards seal.
Paraguay's standards seal.
Argentina's standards seal.
A thirteen-digit number identifying one edition of a book.
The last digit that tests the others.
Three letters naming a currency unambiguously.
A year, a W and a week number.
An eight-digit number identifying a serial publication.
A ticket with coins beside it.
The seal that signs a contract.
The day of the year, as three digits.
Heavy parallel bars struck across a stamp.
A walking lion marking sterling silver in England.
A numbered tag identifying an individual animal.
A mark struck into the cut end of a log.
The digit that catches a slip.
A dated circle with wavy lines applied by machine.
A spiral drawn from a Nazca line.
A mark for mail carried by ship.
A regional mark above the national ones.
Digits printed in magnetic ink.
Text too small to copy.
Grooves or lettering round the rim, invented against coin clipping.
A small letter or emblem saying which mint struck the coin.
The seal for a parcel.
Three arrows chasing each other.
A capital letter N crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Nigerian naira.
A carved seal in red.
Two angular forms side by side, each an upright with a horizontal arm, joined at the top by a continuous line, the sign for the Israeli new shekel.
An equals sign in a circle forbidding modified versions being shared.
Mexico's official standard mark.
A struck-through currency sign restricting use to non-commercial purposes.
A notary's own device, certifying a signature rather than a document.
An indicator for mail sent on government business.
A keyhole mark identifying the body that certifies open-source licences.
A colour that depends on the angle.
A sixteen-digit number identifying a researcher.
Stars arranged as a leaf.
Grams per square metre, or pounds per unusual ream.
A map fill marking grazing land.
Letters and numbers ranking a pencil's hardness and blackness.
Initials perforated through a postage stamp to deter theft.
A figure giving the number of holes in a set length.
A printed indicator replacing a stamp in bulk mail.
A capital letter P crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the Philippine peso.
A herd mark tattooed onto both shoulders.
A label recording a plant's origin and traceability.
A number in a sheet margin identifying the printing plate.
Fineness numbers for the two later-hallmarked precious metals.
A mark showing that postage was underpaid and a charge is owed on delivery.
A cancellation printed before the stamp is used.
An emblem identifying the printer of a book, placed on its title page or colophon.
A descending row of numerals showing which printing this is.
A small extra emblem marking an occasion or a production detail.
A signed and dated box on a proof, transferring responsibility for the content.
A barrel that survived a test.
A ringed emblem marking a food whose name is legally protected by origin.
A blue and yellow ring for place-linked food.
An address inside a building.
A mark applied to mail sorted aboard a train.
A stated interval before a treated area may be entered.
Obverse, reverse, legend, exergue, edge — the parts, and which carries what.
The row of small stamped marks on gold and silver, and what each position in the row tells you.
A barcoded label headed R, identifying an item accepted as registered post.
A superscript capital R inside a circle (®), used only for marks formally registered with a national trademark office.
A number inside a triangle.
A painted mark protecting a tree from felling.
A stamped or written reason code on undelivered mail being sent back.
A currency name as one glyph.
A letter or number stamped inside a band, giving its size in a national scale.
A continuous repeating pattern applied by a wheel.
Cuts rather than holes along a stamp edge.
A capital letter P with a closed bowl, crossed by a single short horizontal stroke at the foot of its stem, the sign for the Russian ruble.
Different stamp designs joined in one sheet.
A metallic strip embedded in the note, surfacing in windows.
A label identifying a certified batch of seed.
A count that identifies one thing.
SM for a service, not a product.
A circular arrow requiring adaptations carry the same licence.
A device tying goods to a document.
A number whose meaning depends entirely on which country's system.
A letter grading how wide a shoe is at a given length.
Numbers written to resist forgery.
Coloured pitch on a fleece.
A P in a circle.
An overprint marking a stamp as not valid for postage.
Initials in a shaped punch, identifying who submitted the article.
An overprint changing a stamp's face value.
A rod-derived shorthand for numbers.
Raised dots or bars letting a note be identified by touch.
Ditto, in Tamil.
An accounting mark for money due.
An accounting mark for money owed.
The older Tamil money mark.
A capital letter T with a second horizontal bar below its crossbar, the sign for the Kazakhstani tenge.
Two joined stamps printed head to foot.
A figure putting litter in a bin.
A stamp giving strength class, moisture and certification.
What a coin's surface says about where it has been.
A superscript 'TM' (™), used to indicate a claimed but not necessarily registered trademark.
Coloured dots in a margin checking ink registration.
A dated mark applied at an office along the route.
A letter L leaning to the right with an upward hook at the foot, crossed by two short strokes rising to the right, the sign for the Turkish lira.
Uruguay's standards seal.
An image in the paper itself, visible only against the light.
A stated interval before produce may be used.
A heading on correspondence, keeping it out of evidence.
A capital letter W crossed by two short horizontal strokes, the sign for the South Korean won.