List of historical currencies
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This is a list of historical currencies.
Ancient Mediterranean
[edit]Greece
[edit]- Aeginian stater (gold)
- Corinthian stater (silver)
- Aurous
- Athenian drachma (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
Phoenicia
[edit]- Stater (electrum and silver)
- Trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
- Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
Egypt (Dynasty 30)
[edit]- Nefernub (Gold Stater)
Persia
[edit]Carthage
[edit]Etruscan
[edit]Rome
[edit]- Antoninianus
- Argenteus (silver)
- As (copper)
- Aureus (gold)
- Denarius (silver)
- Dupondius (bronze)
- Follis
- Sestertius (bronze)
- Solidus (gold)
- Talent (silver, gold)
- Tremissis (gold)
Israel
[edit]Ancient Armenia
[edit]Africa
[edit]- 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
[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
- 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]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]Indonesia
[edit]- Sumatran dollar
- Javan rupee
- Oeang Republik Indonesia (ORI)
Iran
[edit]Japan
[edit]Korean
[edit]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
- Gold Coinages
- Silver Coinage
- Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
- Sampaloc Barillas
- Dos Mundos
- Sulu coins- Philippines
- Piso
Vietnam
[edit]India
[edit]- Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha dynasty
- Portuguese Indian rupia
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- French Indian rupee
- Travancore Rupee
- Rupee
- Vijayanagara coinage
Other currencies
[edit]- Keping
- Dollar
- Baht – Thailand
- Escudo
- Kushan Coinage
- Lira – Israel
- Mohar – Nepal
- Pound
- Rouble – Tajikistan
Oceania
[edit]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
- Monégasque franc
- Portuguese escudo
- Sammarinese lira
- Slovak koruna
- Slovenian tolar
- Spanish peseta
- Vatican lira
- Akçe
- Daler
- Rigsdaler – Denmark and Norway
- Rijksdaalder – Netherlands
- Riksdaler – Sweden
- Speciedaler – Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat – throughout Europe
- Écu
- Florin
- Farthing – Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
- Genovino – Republic of Genoa
- Gold coin
- Groat – Great Britain
- Grzywna/Hryvnia
- Gulden – Germany and Austria
- Half crown – Great Britain
- Halfpenny
- Ilgasis – Kingdom of Lithuania
- Koruna
- Leu
- Libra jaquesa
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets – Ukraine
- Korona – Hungary
- Mark
- Pengő – Hungary
- 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
- Silver coin
- Spesmilo
- Stater
- Talonas – Lithuania
- Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary
- Threepence – Great Britain
- Złoty
- Polish złoty (Poland)
South Caucasus
[edit]International
[edit]- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
- Bitcoin, 2009–Present. Global decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency.
See also
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