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Currency information in JSON
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Currency information in JSON

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/wiredmax/world-currencies
• Owner: wiredmax
• License: other
• Created: 2014-07-25T20:48:24.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-11T12:06:07.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-03T18:04:02.879Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: currency-information, javascript, json
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 161 KB
• Stars: 141
• Watchers: 12
• Forks: 40
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
#Currency information in JSON.

This repository contains currency information for currencies contained in ISO 4217 in JSON format.

##Example

```json

{

    "CAD": {

        "name": "Canadian Dollar",

        "iso": {

            "code": "CAD",

            "number": "124"

        },

        "units": {

            "major": {

                "name": "dollar",

                "symbol": "$"

            },

            "minor": {

                "name": "cent",

                "symbol": "¢",

                "majorValue": 0.01

            }

        },

        "banknotes": {

            "frequent": [

                "5$",

                "10$",

                "20$",

                "50$",

                "100$"

            ],

            "rare": [

                "1$",

                "2$",

                "500$",

                "1000$"

            ]

        },

        "coins": {

            "frequent": [

                "1$",

                "2$",

                "5¢",

                "10¢",

                "25¢"

            ],

            "rare": [

                "1¢",

                "50¢"

            ]

        }

    }

}

```

## How to contribute?

You can simply submit a pull request and I'll gladly review them and merge them if the changes are acceptable.

 - Indent using spaces with a tab width of 4 in the json5 source.

 - Make sure to rebuild the distribution version by executing grunt before submiting a pull request.

 - Only static data (no exchange rate data or inflation value)

## Change log

See the [change log](https://github.com/wiredmax/currency/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

## To do

 - [X] All the currency in ISO 4217 with their respective information and details.

 - [ ] i18n of currency names and units

 - [ ] More formats such as XML, YAML and CSV.

 - [ ] Countries using currency.

 - [ ] Central bank accociated to the currency and it's related information like the location and website, etc.

## Sources

http://www.currency-iso.org

http://www.xe.com/iso4217.php

The rest comes from Wikipedia

## License

See [LICENSE](https://github.com/wiredmax/currency/blob/master/LICENSE).