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Numismatics

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Infobox Lists: long & trivial

At euro, the infobox contains six lists each with 15–30 entries (rows), 103 rows in total. Thats the data points: user countries, printers, printer websites, mint, mint websites, pegging countries. (US dollar has 57 such rows, luckily they have only 1 mint and 1 printer).

The Data points. First of all, I question whether the websites of both mint and printer are infobox-worthy. Even if its just one. Same question for mint and printer names themselves. So that's four data names. Per WP:INFOBOX, (1) only info that's already in the article body can be summarised in the infobox and (2), it should be a summary not a full repetition let alone new info. We can and should require that this info, clearly deemed relevant to the article, be presented (listed) in the article itself. Removal from infobox then is easy to argue, possibly leaving a see-link in there (when mint/printer data is structured, eg fixed section name).

The numbers. About the euro example, with 103 list rows. All the above applies: why list mints & printers & peggers at all? Then, know that in mobile view, all lists are unfolded (euro (m)). That is: the Reader has to scroll all 103 lines (13 screens of infobox over here) to get to the second intro line "The currency is ...".

Proposal: best solution I can think of is to move the four mint, printer + websites lists to a section somewhere below. The IB then can have a "see § sectionlink". If needed, the IB can be adjusted to accomodate such links. Also, in the case of the large euro-numbers, an article body area can have the two full lists of using countries, pegging countries, with more info (maps!) in more space. DePiep (talk) 18:58, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Add to the list of data points: |currency_in_local_name=. (for example, euro lists eight languages). -DePiep (talk) 05:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support per WP:think of the reader who is most likely to be on mobile. TBF, I'm not a neutral bystander. IMO these infoboxes are overloaded and indeed I pruned the pound sterling infobox as much as I dared (with favourable rather than adverse feedback so I could have gone in harder!). The euro is perhaps an extreme case but over the years these infoboxes have become the playground of every special interest group. The mint and printer info is surely only of interest to collectors. Split. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:04, 6 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

May I invite you to move that data into article body? I don't think I have much extra time coming days/weeks. My "advise" available by question, not as how-to prescription ;-) DePiep (talk) 11:36, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pilot articles (evolving list)

Data points of interest: local_name, countries, printers, printer websites, mint, mint websites, pegging countries (each can be a list). Not considered a priori: coin & banknote lists, nicknames.

~~euro: 110 rows~~ done
~~US dollar: 55 rows~~ done 13:08, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
~~Pound sterling: 30 rows~~ done 17:23, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
French franc: 15 rows
Austro-Hungarian crown: ..

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-DePiep (talk) 06:24, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Image caption?

Is it possible to add an image caption? toobigtokale (talk) 06:54, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What do you have in mind? For example, pound sterling has two images with captions:

| image_1 = British 12 sided pound coin.png

| image_title_1 = £1 coin (obverse)

| image_2 = Bank of England £50 Series G obverse.jpg

| image_title_2 = Series G £50 banknote

Is that not enough? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 15:40, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh! Yes that’s what I was looking for toobigtokale (talk) 22:49, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Subunits for MGA and MRU

Despite the fact that ISO 4217 defines the minor unit of the Malagasy ariary and Mauritanian ouguiya as having 2 digits after the decimal point, both of these currencies are technically subdivided to where the 5 of the minor unit make up the main unit. Could there be an override made so it doesn't pull from the ISO template and 0.01 does not show up in this field in the infobox for these two currencies (as it conflicts with the article body)? HapHaxion _{(talk / contribs)} 08:22, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category name unfortunate

The name Category:Currencies with ISO 4217 code makes users think if they look real hard, right there on the dollar bill, they can find the code. Jidanni (talk) 03:21, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]