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| | Articles - ISO 4217 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | This eliminates the problem caused by the names dollar, franc and pound being used in dozens of different countries, all with wildly differing values. |
 | | Supranational currencies, such as the East Caribbean dollar, the CFP franc, the CFA franc BEAC and the CFA franc BCEAO are normally also represented by codes beginning with an "X". |
 | | However, the Euro is represented by the code EUR; although EU is not an ISO 3166-1 country code, it was used anyway, and in order to do so EU was added to the ISO 3166-1 reserved codes list to represent the European Union. |
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