ISO 4217 Currency Codes: Full Numeric List with Minor Units

Full table, sorted by numeric code

The list is sorted by the numeric code because that is the form a message actually gives you: DE49 reads 764, and the question is what 764 means (Thai Baht, 2 decimals). Every row is deep-linkable via #c + numeric code — #c764 jumps straight to that row. A useful pattern: the numeric codes reuse the ISO 3166 country numbers (840 = US, 392 = JP), while supranational currencies sit in the 9xx range (978 EUR, 952 XOF).

Jump to: 764 THB · 840 USD · 978 EUR · 392 JPY · 156 CNY · 826 GBP · 702 SGD · 414 KWD

For interactive search and a minor-units converter, use the currency code lookup tool — type a code, a number or a name and it filters as you go.

Minor units: where the decimal point goes

ISO 8583 amount fields have no decimal point. DE4 is an integer in the currency's minor units, and the currency code in DE49 tells you how many of the trailing digits are fractional. The same 12-digit value means three very different amounts:

Currencies with 0 minor units

The amount field is already the final amount — no digits are fractional:

BIF 108 (Burundian Franc), CLP 152 (Chilean Peso), KMF 174 (Comorian Franc), DJF 262 (Djiboutian Franc), GNF 324 (Guinean Franc), ISK 352 (Icelandic Krona), JPY 392 (Japanese Yen), KRW 410 (South Korean Won), VUV 548 (Vanuatu Vatu), PYG 600 (Paraguayan Guarani), RWF 646 (Rwandan Franc), VND 704 (Vietnamese Dong), UGX 800 (Ugandan Shilling), XAF 950 (Central African CFA Franc), XOF 952 (West African CFA Franc), XPF 953 (CFP Franc).

Currencies with 3 minor units

The last three digits are fractional (1 dinar = 1000 fils):

BHD 048 (Bahraini Dinar), IQD 368 (Iraqi Dinar), JOD 400 (Jordanian Dinar), KWD 414 (Kuwaiti Dinar), LYD 434 (Libyan Dinar), OMR 512 (Omani Rial), TND 788 (Tunisian Dinar).

Everything else in the table above uses the familiar 2 decimals.

DE49 vs DE50 vs DE51: three currency fields, three currencies

ISO 8583 defines three currency-code fields, each paired with its own amount field:

On a purely domestic transaction all three are the same and DE50/DE51 are often absent. Cross-border, they diverge: a Singapore-issued card paying in Bangkok can carry DE49 = 764 (THB at the till), DE50 = 840 (network settles in USD) and DE51 = 702 (cardholder billed in SGD). And if the merchant offers DCC (dynamic currency conversion) and the cardholder accepts, the conversion moves to the point of sale: DE49 itself becomes 702 — the card's currency — at the merchant's exchange rate. The EMV amount tag 9F02 follows the transaction currency, i.e. DE49's exponent.

Practical rule: never assume the three match. Read each amount with the exponent of its own currency field — DE4 with DE49, DE5 with DE50, DE6 with DE51. Paste a full message into the parser and it applies the right exponent to each amount automatically.

When codes change

ISO 4217 is a maintained standard, not a frozen one. Currencies get redenominated with a new code (Sierra Leone's SLL became SLE 925), retired when a country switches currency (Croatia's HRK ended with euro adoption), and occasionally added. The special code XXX 999 means "no currency" and shows up in test messages. This table covers the currencies current at the time of writing; for anything money moves on, the authority is your counterparty's interface specification and the current ISO 4217 amendment — if your scheme spec says a code means something else, the spec wins.

👉 Working with a live message? The parser decodes DE49/DE50/DE51 and formats every amount with the right exponent. For one-off lookups with a converter, use the currency codes tool.

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