Gold Silver Ledger renders every monetary value in one of fifteen display currencies. The list is selected from the world's most actively traded and most-stable free-floating currencies, with a few regional additions for countries with established precious-metals communities.
This article is the reference: the full list with codes and symbols, the quirks worth knowing about specific currencies, and what to do if yours isn't on it.
The full list, by region
Americas
USD — United States Dollar ($): The reference currency for the app. Everything is stored internally in USD before being translated to whatever you pick.
CAD — Canadian Dollar (C$ or $): Active precious-metals market with strong dealer presence. The Royal Canadian Mint is one of the world's largest sovereign mints.
MXN — Mexican Peso ($ or MXN$): Mexico has a deep historical relationship with silver — the Mexican Silver Libertad is one of the most-collected modern silver coins.
Europe
EUR — Euro (€): The shared currency of the eurozone — Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, Austria, Finland, Portugal, and others.
GBP — British Pound (£): Active retail bullion market; HMRC has specific treatment for legal-tender UK coins (Sovereigns, Britannias).
CHF — Swiss Franc (CHF or Fr): Switzerland is home to several major refiners (PAMP, Valcambi, Metalor, Argor-Heraeus) — many of the bars in the app's catalog originate there.
SEK — Swedish Krona (kr): Sweden, freely floating.
NOK — Norwegian Krone (kr): Norway, freely floating. Despite the shared word krone, Norway and Denmark each have their own independent currency.
DKK — Danish Krone (kr): Denmark, pegged to the euro within a narrow band. So DKK values track EUR very closely.
Asia Pacific
JPY — Japanese Yen (¥): No decimal subunit in normal display — values are shown as whole-yen integers rather than to two decimal places. A 1 oz gold coin currently rendering as 4,700.00 in USD will render as something like 729,000 in JPY.
HKD — Hong Kong Dollar (HK$ or $): Pegged to the US Dollar within a narrow band by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. So HKD values track USD very closely, with most movement coming from the small permitted variance rather than from rate moves.
SGD — Singapore Dollar (S$ or $): Singapore is a major Asian bullion hub; investment-grade bullion has favourable tax treatment locally.
AUD — Australian Dollar (A$ or $): Australia is one of the world's largest gold producers; the Perth Mint produces many of the gold and silver products in the catalog.
NZD — New Zealand Dollar (NZ$ or $): New Zealand, freely floating.
Africa
ZAR — South African Rand (R): South Africa is one of the world's most significant precious-metals producers. The South African Krugerrand is the original modern bullion coin.
Currencies pegged to other currencies
Two of the fifteen aren't fully free-floating, which can be a useful detail if you ever want to predict how a value might move.
HKD is pegged to USD: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority maintains a tight band around 7.75–7.85 HKD per USD. So if you have HKD selected, your portfolio value moves with the underlying USD figure essentially in lockstep — useful if you want to live with HKD formatting while not introducing any meaningful FX variance.
DKK is pegged to EUR: Denmark participates in ERM II with a very narrow band around 7.46 DKK per EUR. So DKK values move closely with what EUR would show.
These pegs don't change how the app handles the conversion — every display currency uses the live FX rate at render time — but they do explain why HKD values can feel almost identical to USD values, and DKK to EUR.
A note on JPY
JPY is the only currency in the list that the app renders without decimal places. A value that's $4,700.00 in USD is shown as something like ¥729,000 in JPY, not ¥729,000.00.
This is the standard convention for Japanese yen — the sen subunit has long been out of circulation, and yen amounts are usually quoted as whole integers.
This is a display detail, not a data detail. The underlying USD storage is unchanged; the rendering layer just rounds and formats appropriately for the currency.
What to do if your currency isn't on the list
If your local currency isn't one of the fifteen, the practical workaround is to pick the closest major currency and live with values shown in that. A few patterns we've seen:
Eurozone-adjacent countries (PLN, CZK, HUF, RON, BGN, HRK, and others): EUR is usually the closest mental anchor.
Middle East (AED, SAR, ILS, QAR, KWD): USD often works, especially since several of these are pegged or managed against USD.
South-east Asia outside Singapore (THB, MYR, IDR, PHP, VND): USD or SGD depending on which is closer to how you mentally price bullion.
Latin America outside Mexico (BRL, ARS, COP, CLP, PEN): USD is the most-used regional reference for precious metals.
India (INR): Currently no direct support. USD is the standard fallback for international bullion pricing.
China (CNY / RMB): Currently no direct support. USD or HKD are the most-used proxies.
Display currency is purely visual — picking USD when your home currency is INR doesn't affect your data in any way. The Annual Report, transactions, holdings, and underlying math are unchanged.
See Choosing your display currency for the steps and How currency conversion works for the storage-vs-display model.
Why these fifteen
The current list is built around a few principles:
Free-floating major currencies: Most of the list is freely traded in deep FX markets with reliable interbank rates that we can source continuously. That keeps the conversion accurate and not subject to artificial pegs that distort retail experience.
Active local precious-metals communities: South Africa, Switzerland, Australia, Mexico, and the UK all have meaningful stacker populations and well-developed local bullion markets.
Reliable upstream FX data: Every currency on the list has continuously quoted interbank rates that we can pull in real time. Currencies with thin or politically managed markets are harder to surface honestly.
The shortlist isn't meant to be exhaustive — it's meant to be the set we can render reliably and that covers most of where Gold Silver Ledger's users actually live.
What's on the roadmap
The currency list isn't frozen. A few directions we're looking at:
Indian Rupee (INR): The biggest gap in the current list given India's enormous precious-metals demand.
Chinese Yuan (CNY): Comparably significant, though FX-data sourcing is more complicated.
A handful of mid-tier European currencies: PLN and CZK in particular.
UAE Dirham (AED): Dubai is a major bullion-trade hub.
No firm dates to share. If your currency isn't on the list and you'd like to see it added, [Contact support] with a quick note. The more clearly we hear the demand, the faster the prioritization gets.
Where to go next
Choosing your display currency: The how-to for changing the setting.
[How currency conversion works]: The USD-stored, display-converted model.
[How often FX rates update]: Refresh cadence for the FX feed.
[Why your historical values shift slightly when you change currency]: The fine print on currency switching.