List of historical currencies

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This is a list of historical currencies .

Greece [ edit ]

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

Ancient Lebanon [ edit ]

• Tyrian shekel

Ancient Lydia [ edit ]

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

Ancient Persia [ edit ]

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

Ancient Rome [ edit ]

• 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

Ancient Europe [ edit ]

• Potin
• Stater
• Gold coin
• Silver coin
• Ecu
• Florin
• Libra jaquesa

Ancient Israel [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

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

Africa [ edit ]

• Ajuran currency
• Aksumite currency
• Mogadishu currency
• Dollar ? Rhodesia
• Dinar ? Sudan
• Ekwele (Ekuele) ? Equatorial Guinea
• Escudo
  • Angolan escudo
  • Mozambican escudo
  • Portuguese Guinean escudo
  • Sao Tome and Principe 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 [ edit ]

Pre-colonial [ edit ]

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

Post-contact [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• Dollar
  • Dominican dollar
  • Grenadian dollar
• Pound
  • Bahamian pound
  • Bermudian pound
  • Jamaican pound

Mexico [ edit ]

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

Asia [ edit ]

China [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• Yen ? Taiwan
• Old Taiwan dollar

Indonesia [ edit ]

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

Iran [ edit ]

• Qiran ? Iran
• Achaemenid currency ? Iran
• Elymais ? Iran

Japan [ edit ]

• Ry?
• Mon
• Japanese cash
• Gold plates
  • ?ban
  • Koban
  • Ichibuban
• Yen
  • Military yen
  • Invasion money
  • B yen

Korean [ edit ]

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

Malaya [ edit ]

• 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

Philippines [ edit ]

• 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

Vietnam [ edit ]

• đ?ng ? Vietnam
• Xu ? South Vietnam
• l??ng
• v?n

Historical money of Tibet [ edit ]

• Tibetan skar
• Tibetan srang
• Tibetan tangka

India [ edit ]

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

Other currencies [ edit ]

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

Oceania [ edit ]

• Pound
  • Australian pound
  • Fijian pound
  • New Zealand pound
  • Solomon Islands pound
  • Tongan pound
  • Western Samoan pound

Modern Europe [ edit ]

• European Currency Unit and 22 national currencies which were replaced by the euro :
  • Austrian schilling
  • Belgian franc
  • 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
  • Monegasque franc
  • Portuguese escudo
  • Sammarinese lira
  • Slovak koruna
  • Slovenian tolar
  • Spanish peseta
  • Vatican lira
• Akce
• Daler
  • Rigsdaler ? Denmark and Norway
  • Rijksdaalder ? Netherlands
  • Riksdaler ? Sweden
  • Speciedaler ? Norway
• Dinar
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
  • Croatian dinar
  • Yugoslav dinar ? former Yugoslavia
• Ducat ? throughout Europe
• 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
• 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
• Koruna
  • Czechoslovak koruna
  • Bohemian and Moravian koruna
  • Slovak koruna (1939?1945)
• Leu
  • Romanian leu
  • Moldovan leu
• 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
• Peng? ? Hungary
• Perper
  • Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perpera
  • Serbian perper
  • Montenegrin perper
• Perun
• Qirsh
• Shilling ? Great Britain and others
• Sixpence ? Great Britain and Ireland
• Peso ? Spain
• Real
  • Spanish real (plural reales)
  • Portuguese real (plural reis)
  • Gibraltar real
• Rouble ? former Soviet Union
• Rublis ? Latvia
• Scudo
  • Italian scudo ? Lombardy-Venetia , Modena and Papal States
  • Maltese scudo
• Spesmilo
• 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 [ edit ]

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

International [ edit ]

• Stelo , 1945?1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists .
• Bitcoin , 2009?Present. Global decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency.

See also [ edit ]

• List of circulating currencies