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Three letters naming a currency unambiguously.
Also known as: ISO 4217 code, Three-letter currency code
An ISO 4217 code is three letters: two for the country and one for the currency's name. It exists because currency signs are ambiguous — the dollar sign serves more than twenty currencies — and a code cannot be.
Names a currency in three letters, the first two from the country code and the third from the currency's own name.
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Exists because currency signs are shared: the dollar sign serves more than twenty different currencies and the code distinguishes them.
Contexts: History
Is what a bank or a price feed uses, so a code rather than a sign is the reliable form in any document that crosses a border.
Contexts: History
Three capital letters printed before or after a numeric amount.