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List of historical currencies

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This is a list of historical currencies.

Ancient Mediterranean

Greece

  • Aeginian stater (gold)
  • Corinthian stater (silver)
  • Aurous
  • Athenian drachma (silver)
  • Stater (silver)
  • Tetradrachm (silver)
  • Drachma (silver) OBOL (silver)
    • Alexandrian coinage
    • Ptolemaic coinage
    • Seleucid coinage
    • Bactrian coinage

Phoenicia

  • Tyrian shekel

[[Lydia#First coinage|Lydia]]

  • Stater (electrum and silver)
  • Trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
  • Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
    • Lydian coin

Egypt ([[Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt|Dynasty 30]])

  • Nefernub (Gold Stater)

Persia

  • Daric (gold)
  • Sigloi (silver)
    • Persian coinage
    • Persis coinage
    • Parthian coinage
    • Sassanian coinage
    • Elymais coinage

Carthage

Main article: Carthaginian coinage

  • Litra
  • Shekel

Etruscan

Main article: Etruscan coins

  • As

Rome

Main article: Roman currency

  • Antoninianus
  • Argenteus (silver)
  • As (copper)
  • Aureus (gold)
  • Denarius (silver)
  • Dupondius (bronze)
  • Follis
  • Sestertius (bronze)
  • Solidus (gold)
  • Talent (silver, gold)
  • Tremissis (gold)
    • Roman currency
    • Roman Imperial currency
    • Roman Republican currency

Israel

  • Ma'ah (silver)
  • Prutah (bronze/copper)
    • Yehud coinage
    • Hashmonean coinage
    • Herodian coinage
    • Roman Procurator coinage
    • First Jewish Revolt coinage
    • Judaea Capta coinage
    • Bar Kochba Revolt coinage
  • Sheqel (silver)
  • Zuz (silver)

Ancient Armenia

  • Dahekan
  • Dang
  • Dram
  • P'ogh
  • Kartez
  • Tagvorin

Africa

  • Ajuran currency

  • Aksumite currency

  • Mogadishu currency

  • Dollar

    • Rhodesian dollar
    • Sierra Leonean dollar
    • Zimbabwean dollar
    • Zimbabwean dollar (2019–2024)
  • Dinar – Sudan

  • Ekwele (Ekuele) – Equatorial Guinea

  • Escudo

    • Angolan escudo
    • Mozambican escudo
    • Portuguese Guinean escudo
    • São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
  • Florin – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Franc

    • Algerian franc
    • French Camerounian franc
    • Moroccan franc
    • Malagasy franc
    • Malian franc
  • Katanga Cross – Zaire

  • Lira

    • Italian East African lira
    • Italian Somaliland lira
    • Tripolitanian lira
  • Metica – Mozambique

  • Peseta – Equatorial Guinea

  • Peso – Guinea-Bissau

  • Pound

    • Biafran pound
    • British West African pound – Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
    • Gambian pound
    • Ghanaian pound
    • Libyan pound
    • Malawian pound
    • Nigerian pound
    • Rhodesian pound
    • South African pound
    • Zambian pound
  • Rial – Morocco

  • Rupee – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Shilling – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

  • Syli – Guinea

  • Zaire – Zaire

Americas

Pre-colonial

  • Axe-money – Western Mesoamerica and Northern Andes
  • Cocoa bean – Mesoamerica
  • copper – Ojibway
  • Cotton fabric – Mesoamerica

Post-contact

  • Austral – Argentina
  • Continental – Colonial America
  • Cruzeiro, Cruzado – Brazil
  • Escudo – Chile
  • Inti – Peru
  • Peso
    • Bolivian peso
    • Costa Rican peso
    • Dominican peso
    • Guatemalan peso
    • Honduran peso
    • Nicaraguan peso
    • Paraguayan peso
  • Scudo – Bolivia
  • Sucre – Ecuador

Canada

  • 5-sol French coin and silver coins – New France
  • Spanish-American coins- unofficial
  • Playing cards – 1685-1760s, sometimes officially New France
  • 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire – early 17th century New France
  • Gold Louis – 1720 New France
  • Sol and Double Sol 1738–1764
  • English coins early 19th century
  • Tokens and Army Bills – War of 1812
  • British Shinplaster 1870s
  • United States silver coins 1868–1869

Caribbean

  • Dollar
    • Dominican dollar
    • Grenadian dollar
  • Pound
    • Bahamian pound
    • Bermudian pound
    • Jamaican pound
  • Netherlands Antillean guilder

Mexico

  • Mexican dollar
  • Mexican real
  • Original Mexican peso – replaced by the nuevo peso (MXN), now just called peso, in 1993

Asia

China

  • Un chau – China
  • Knife money – Zhou dynasty
  • Ant nose coin – Chu (state)
  • Ying Yuan – Chu (state)
  • Sycee – Qin dynasty
  • Ban Liang – Qin dynasty
  • Spade money – Zhou dynasty, Xin dynasty
  • Jiaozi (currency) – Song dynasty
  • Guanzi (currency) – Song dynasty
  • Huizi (currency) – Southern Song dynasty
  • Cash – China
  • Customs gold unit – China

India

  • Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha dynasty
  • Portuguese Indian rupia
  • Portuguese Indian escudo
  • French Indian rupee
  • Travancore Rupee
  • Rupee
    • Hyderabadi rupee
  • Vijayanagara coinage

Indonesia

  • Sumatran dollar
  • Javan rupee
  • Oeang Republik Indonesia (ORI)

Iran

  • Qiran – Iran
  • Achaemenid currency – Iran
  • Elymais – Iran

Israel

  • Palestine pound – Mandate for Palestine
  • Israeli pound (or Lira) – Israel
  • Old Israeli Shekel – Israel

Japan

  • Ryō
  • Mon
  • Japanese cash
  • Gold plates
    • Ōban
    • Koban
    • Ichibuban
  • Yen
    • Military yen
    • Invasion money
    • B yen

Korean

  • Hwan – Korea
  • Mun
  • Yang
  • Imperial Won
  • yen – Korea

Malaya

  • Tin Animal Money
  • Tin ingot
  • Sumatran dudu
  • Brunei pitis
  • British North Borneo dollar
  • Malayan dollar
  • Malaya and British Borneo dollar – Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei
  • Sarawak dollar
  • Straits dollar – Straits Settlements

[[History of Philippine money|Philippines]]

  • Gold Coinages
    • Piloncitos
    • Barter rings
  • Silver Coinage
    • Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
    • Sampaloc Barillas
    • Dos Mundos
  • Sulu coins- Philippines
  • Piso
    • Philippine peso fuerte
    • Guerilla pesos

Taiwan

  • Yen – Taiwan
  • Old Taiwan dollar

[[Historical money of Tibet|Tibet]]

  • Tibetan skar
  • Tibetan srang
  • Tibetan tangka

Vietnam

  • Đồng – Vietnam
  • Xu – South Vietnam
  • lượng
  • văn

Other currencies

  • Keping
    • Kelantan keping
    • Trengganu keping
  • Dollar
    • Mongolian dollar
  • Baht – Thailand
  • Escudo
    • Portuguese Timorese escudo
  • Kushan Coinage
  • Mohar – Nepal
  • Pound
    • Jordanian pound
    • Palestine pound
  • Rouble – Tajikistan
    • Bhutanese rupee
    • Burmese rupee
    • Gulf rupee – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates

Oceania

  • Pound
    • Australian pound
    • Fijian pound
    • New Zealand pound
    • Solomon Islands pound
    • Tongan pound
    • Western Samoan pound
  • Rai stones – Yap

Europe

Currencies replaced by the euro

  • European Currency Unit and 24 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
    • Austrian schilling
    • Belgian franc
    • Bulgarian lev
    • Croatian kuna
    • Cypriot pound
    • Dutch guilder
    • Estonian kroon
    • Finnish markka
    • French franc
    • German mark
    • Greek drachma
    • Irish pound
    • Italian lira
    • Latvian lats
    • Lithuanian litas
    • Luxembourgish franc
    • Maltese lira
    • Monégasque franc
    • Portuguese escudo
    • Sammarinese lira
    • Slovak koruna
    • Slovenian tolar
    • Spanish peseta
    • Vatican lira

Other historical currencies

  • Akçe
  • Daler
    • Rigsdaler – Denmark and Norway
    • Rijksdaalder – Netherlands
    • Riksdaler – Sweden
    • Speciedaler – Norway
  • Dinar
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
    • Croatian dinar
    • Serbian dinar
    • Yugoslav dinar – former Yugoslavia
  • Double - Bailiwick of Guernsey
  • Ducat – throughout Europe
  • Écu
  • Florin
    • Florin – Austria
    • Florin – Aragon
    • Florin – England
    • Florin – Great Britain
    • Double Florin – Great Britain
    • Florin – Italy and Italian city-states
  • Farthing – Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
    • Farthing (British coin)
    • Farthing (Irish coin)
  • Genovino – Republic of Genoa
  • Gold coin
  • Groat – Great Britain
  • Grzywna/Hryvnia
    • Grzywna – throughout Eastern Europe
    • Hryvnia – Ukraine
  • Gulden – Germany and Austria
  • Half crown – Great Britain
  • Halfpenny
    • Halfpenny (Australian) – Australia
    • Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin) – Great Britain
    • Halfpenny (Irish pre-decimal coin) – Ireland
    • Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin) – Ireland
    • Halfpenny (New Zealand) – New Zealand
    • Halfpenny (Scotland) – Scotland
  • Ilgasis – Kingdom of Lithuania
  • Koruna
    • Czechoslovak koruna
    • Bohemian and Moravian koruna
    • Slovak koruna (1939–1945)
  • Leu
    • Romanian leu
    • Moldovan leu
  • Libra jaquesa
  • Lira
    • Neapolitan lira
    • Turkish lira
    • Venetian lira
  • Livre
    • French livre
    • Luxembourgian livre
  • Karbovanets – Ukraine
  • Korona – Hungary
  • Mark
    • East German mark – German Democratic Republic
    • Estonian mark
    • Goldmark – German Reich
    • Ostmark – German occupied eastern Europe
    • Papiermark – German Reich
    • Reichsmark – German Reich
    • Rentenmark – German Reich
    • Mark – Poland
  • Pengő – Hungary
  • Perper
    • Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perpera
    • Serbian perper
    • Montenegrin perper
  • Perun
  • Qirsh
  • Shilling – Great Britain and others
  • Sixpence – Great Britain and Ireland
  • Peso – Spain
  • Potin
  • Real
    • Spanish real (plural reales)
    • Portuguese real (plural réis)
    • Gibraltar real
  • Rouble – former Soviet Union
  • Rublis – Latvia
  • Scudo
    • Italian scudo – Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
    • Maltese scudo
  • Silver coin
  • Spesmilo
  • Stater
  • Talonas – Lithuania
  • Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary
    • Conventionsthaler
    • Reichsthaler
    • Vereinsthaler
  • Threepence – Great Britain
    • Threepence (Australian)
    • Threepence (British coin)
    • Threepence (Irish coin)
  • Złoty
    • Polish złoty (Poland)

South Caucasus

  • Abazi – Georgia
  • Artsakh dram – Artsakh
  • Rouble
    • Armenian rouble
    • Azerbaijani rouble
    • Georgian rouble
    • Transcaucasian rouble

International

  • Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
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