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List of historical currencies
Summary
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.
(
November 2020
)
This is a
list of historical currencies
.
Greece
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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
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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
Écu
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
São Tomé and Príncipe 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
Ryō
Mon
Japanese cash
Gold
plates
Ōban
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
Đồng
-
Vietnam
Xu
-
South Vietnam
lượng
văn
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
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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
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
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
Pengő
-
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 réis)
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)
The formerly used
Artsakh dram
, was not used in day-to-day commerce, but was legal tender in their issuing jurisdiction.
South Caucasus
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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
Money portal
Numismatics portal
List of circulating currencies