List of historical currencies
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This is a list of historical currencies.
Ancient Lydia
- Stater (electrum and silver)
- Trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
- Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
Ancient Persia
Ancient Greece
- Aeginian stater (gold)
- Corinthian stater (silver )
- Athenian drachma (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
Ancient Rome
- Antoninianus
- Argenteus (silver)
- As (copper)
- Aureus (gold)
- Denarius (silver)
- Dupondius (bronze)
- Follis
- Sestertius (bronze)
- Solidus (gold)
- Talent (silver, gold)
- Tremissis (gold)
Europe
Ancient Israel
Ancient Armenia
Africa
- Ajuran currency
- Aksumite currency
- Mogadishu 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
- Austral - Argentina
- Continental - Colonial America
- Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil
- Cocoa bean - Aztec Empire
- Escudo - Chile
- Inti - Peru
- Peso
- Scudo - Bolivia
- Sucre - Ecuador
- U.S Dollar - United States of America
Canada before 1860s
- copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century
- 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
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
- Taiwan
- Yen - Taiwan
- Old Taiwan dollar
Iran
Japan
Korean
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
- Sumatran dollar
- Gold Coinages
- Silver Coinage
- Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
- Sampaloc Barillas
- Dos Mundos
Vietnam
India
- Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha Dynasty
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- Rupee
- Vijayanagara coinage
Other currencies
- Keping
- Dollar
- Baht - Thailand
- Escudo
- Kushan Coinage
- Lira - Israel
- Mohar - Nepal
- Pound
- Ruble - Tajikistan
Oceania
Europe
- European Currency Unit and 21 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- Akçe
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijksdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin
- Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
- Genovino - Republic of Genoa
- Groat - Great Britain
- Grzywna - throughout Eastern Europe
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Half crown - Great Britain
- Halfpenny
- Koruna
- 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
- Złoty
- Polish złoty (Poland)
Transcaucasia
International
- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
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