List of historical currencies
This is a list of historical currencies.
Ancient Mediterranean
Greece
- Aeginian stater
- Corinthian stater
- Aurous
- Athenian drachma
- Stater
- Tetradrachm
- Drachma OBOL
- *Alexandrian coinage
- *Ptolemaic coinage
- *Seleucid coinage
- *Bactrian coinage
Phoenicia
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Persia
- Daric
- Sigloi
- *Persian coinage
- *Persis coinage
- *Parthian coinage
- *Sassanian coinage
- *Elymais coinage
Carthage
Etruscan
Rome
- Antoninianus
- Argenteus
- As
- Aureus
- Denarius
- Dupondius
- Follis
- Sestertius
- Solidus
- Talent
- Tremissis
- *Roman currency
- *Roman Imperial currency
- *Roman Republican currency
Israel
- Ma'ah
- Prutah
- *Yehud coinage
- *Hashmonean coinage
- *Herodian coinage
- *Roman Procurator coinage
- *First Jewish Revolt coinage
- *Judaea Capta coinage
- *Bar Kochba Revolt coinage
- Sheqel
- Zuz
Ancient Armenia
- Dahekan
- Dang
- Dram
- P'ogh
- Kartez
- Tagvorin
Africa
- Ajuran currency
- Aksumite currency
- Mogadishu currency
- Dollar
- *Rhodesian dollar
- *Sierra Leonean dollar
- *Zimbabwean dollar
- *Zimbabwean dollar (2019–2024)
- Dinar – Sudan
- Ekwele – 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
Pre-colonial
- Axe-money – Western Mesoamerica and Northern Andes
- Cocoa bean – Mesoamerica
- copper – Ojibway
- Cotton fabric – Mesoamerica
Post-contact
- 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
- 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
- Dollar
- *Dominican dollar
- *Grenadian dollar
- Pound
- *Bahamian pound
- *Bermudian pound
- *Jamaican pound
- Netherlands Antillean guilder
Mexico
- Mexican dollar
- Mexican real
- Original Mexican peso – replaced by the nuevo peso, now just called peso, in 1993
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
India
- Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha dynasty
- Portuguese Indian rupia
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- French Indian rupee
- Travancore Rupee
- Rupee
- *Hyderabadi rupee
- Vijayanagara coinage
Indonesia
Iran
Israel
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
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- Gold Coinages
- *Piloncitos
- *Barter rings
- Silver Coinage
- * Hilis Kalamay -Philippines
- * Sampaloc Barillas
- *Dos Mundos
- Sulu coins- Philippines
- Piso
- *Philippine peso fuerte
- *Guerilla pesos
Taiwan
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Vietnam
Other currencies
- Keping
- *Kelantan keping
- *Trengganu keping
- Dollar
- *Mongolian dollar
- Baht – Thailand
- Escudo
- *Portuguese Timorese escudo
- Kushan Coinage
- Mohar – Nepal
- Pound
- *Jordanian pound
- *Palestine pound
- Rouble – Tajikistan
- *Bhutanese rupee
- *Burmese rupee
- *Gulf rupee – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates
Oceania
- Pound
- *Australian pound
- *Fijian pound
- *New Zealand pound
- *Solomon Islands pound
- *Tongan pound
- *Western Samoan pound
- Rai stones – Yap
Europe
Currencies replaced by the euro
- European Currency Unit and 24 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- *Austrian schilling
- *Belgian franc
- *Bulgarian lev
- *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
Other historical currencies
- Akçe
- Daler
- *Rigsdaler – Denmark and Norway
- *Rijksdaalder – Netherlands
- *Riksdaler – Sweden
- *Speciedaler – Norway
- Dinar
- *Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
- *Croatian dinar
- *Serbian dinar
- *Yugoslav dinar – former Yugoslavia
- Double - Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Ducat – throughout Europe
- Écu
- Florin
- *Florin – Austria
- *Florin – Aragon
- *Florin – England
- *Florin – Great Britain
- *Double Florin – Great Britain
- *Florin – Italy and Italian city-states
- Farthing – Great Britain and Ireland
- *Farthing (British coin)
- *Farthing (Irish coin)
- Genovino – Republic of Genoa
- Gold coin
- 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
- Ilgasis – Kingdom of Lithuania
- Koruna
- *Czechoslovak koruna
- *Bohemian and Moravian koruna
- *Slovak koruna (1939–1945)
- Leu
- *Romanian leu
- *Moldovan leu
- Libra jaquesa
- 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
- Potin
- Real
- *Spanish real
- *Portuguese real
- *Gibraltar real
- Rouble – former Soviet Union
- Rublis – Latvia
- Scudo
- *Italian scudo – Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
- *Maltese scudo
- Silver coin
- Spesmilo
- Stater
- Talonas – Lithuania
- Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary
- *Conventionsthaler
- *Reichsthaler
- *Vereinsthaler
- Threepence – Great Britain
- *Threepence (Australian)
- *Threepence (British coin)
- *Threepence (Irish coin)
- Złoty
- *Polish złoty
South Caucasus
- Abazi – Georgia
- Artsakh dram – Artsakh
- Rouble
- *Armenian rouble
- *Azerbaijani rouble
- *Georgian rouble
- *Transcaucasian rouble
International
- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.