List of historical currencies
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Ancient Lydia [edit]
- Stater (electrum and silver)
- Trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
- Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
Ancient Persia [edit]
Ancient Greece [edit]
- Aeginian stater (silver)
- Corinthian stater (silver)
- Athenian stater (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
Ancient Rome [edit]
- Antoninianus
- Argenteus (silver)
- As (copper)
- Aureus (gold)
- Denarius (silver)
- Dupondius (bronze)
- Follis
- Sestertius (bronze)
- Solidus (gold)
- Talent (silver, gold)
- Tremissis (gold)
Ancient Israel [edit]
Africa [edit]
- Aksumite currency
- Dollar - Rhodesia
- Dinar - Sudan
- Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
- Escudo
- Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Franc
- Katanga Cross - Zaire
- Lira
- Metica - Mozambique
- Peseta - Equatorial Guinea
- Peso - Guinea-Bissau
- Pound
- Rial - Morocco
- Rupee - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Shilling - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Syli - Guinea
- Zaire - Zaire
Americas [edit]
- Austral - Argentina
- Continental - Colonial America
- Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil
- Escudo - Chile
- Inti - Peru
- Peso
- Scudo - Bolivia
- Sucre - Ecuador
- Trade dollar - United States of America
Canada before 1860s [edit]
- copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century
- 5-sol French coin and silver coins - New France
- Spanish-American coins- unofficial
- playing cards 1685 New France
- 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire - early 17th Century New France
- Gold Louis - 1720 New France
- Card Currency 1729-1760 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 [edit]
Asia [edit]
- Achaemenid currency - Iran
- Cash - China
- Customs gold unit - China
- Dollar
- Dồng - Vietnam
- Elymais - Iran
- Escudo
- Hwan - Korea
- Jiaozi (currency) - China
- Keping
- Kushan Coinage
- Lira - Israel
- Mohar - Nepal
- Mon - Japan
- Pound
- Qiran - Iran
- Ruble - Tajikistan
- Rupee
- Ryō - Japan
- Tael - China
- Vijayanagara coinage
- Xu - South Vietnam
Australasia [edit]
Europe [edit]
- 20 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- Akçe
- Auksinas - Lithuania
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijksdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin - Austria
- Florin - Aragon
- Florin - Great Britain
- Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
- Groat - Great Britain
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Half crown - Great Britain
- Halfpenny
- Leu
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets - Ukraine
- Korona - Hungary
- Mark
- Marka - Poland
- Pengő - Hungary
- Perper
- Perun
- Qirsh
- Shilling - Great Britain and others
- Sixpence - Great Britain and Ireland
- Peso - Spain
- Real
- Spanish real (plural reales)
- Portuguese real (plural réis)
- Gibraltar real
- Ruble - former Soviet Union
- Rublis - Latvia
- Scudo
- Spesmilo
- Talonas - Lithuania
- Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
- Threepence - Great Britain
