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List of historical currencies
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This is a list of historical currencies.
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Ancient Mediterranean
Greece
- Aeginian stater (gold)
- Corinthian stater (silver)
- Aurous
- Athenian drachma (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
- Alexandrian coinage
- Ptolemaic coinage
- Seleucid coinage
- Bactrian coinage
Phoenicia
Lydia
Egypt (Dynasty 30)
- Nefernub (Gold Stater)
Persia
- Daric (gold)
- Sigloi (silver)
- Persian coinage
- Persis coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Sassanian coinage
- Elymais coinage
Carthage
Etruscan
Rome
Israel
Ancient Armenia
- Dahekan
- Dang
- Dram
- P'ogh
- Kartez
- Tagvorin
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Africa
- Dollar
- 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
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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
- 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
Mexico
- Mexican dollar
- Mexican real
- Original Mexican peso – replaced by the nuevo peso (MXN), 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
Indonesia
- Sumatran dollar
- Javan rupee
- Oeang Republik Indonesia (ORI)
Iran
Israel
- Palestine pound – Mandate for Palestine
- Israeli pound (or Lira) – Israel
- Old Israeli Shekel – Israel
Japan
Korean
Malaya
Philippines
- Gold Coinages
- Silver Coinage
- Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
- Sampaloc Barillas
- Dos Mundos
- Sulu coins- Philippines
- Piso
Taiwan
Tibet
Vietnam
Other currencies
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Oceania
Europe
Currencies replaced by the euro
- European Currency Unit and 23 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
Other historical currencies
- 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
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International
- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
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