title: How to get base currency in a magento update script?
body: <p>I try to get base currency code in an update script, to create some special products.
  If I try to use</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mage::app()-&gt;getStore()-&gt;getBaseCurrencyCode();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got 'USD', which is the default default currency.
  Looks like stores are not initialized yet.</p>