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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
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Ajuran currency
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Aksumite currency
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Mogadishu currency
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Dollar
- Rhodesian dollar
- Sierra Leonean dollar
- Zimbabwean dollar
- Zimbabwean dollar (2019–2024)
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Dinar – Sudan
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Ekwele (Ekuele) – Equatorial Guinea
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Escudo
- Angolan escudo
- Mozambican escudo
- Portuguese Guinean escudo
- São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
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Florin – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
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Franc
- Algerian franc
- French Camerounian franc
- Moroccan franc
- Malagasy franc
- Malian franc
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Katanga Cross – Zaire
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Lira
- Italian East African lira
- Italian Somaliland lira
- Tripolitanian lira
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Metica – Mozambique
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Peseta – Equatorial Guinea
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Peso – Guinea-Bissau
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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
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Rial – Morocco
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Rupee – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
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Shilling – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
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Syli – Guinea
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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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