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This is a list of historical currencies.
Greece[]
- (gold)
- (silver)
- Aurous
- Athenian drachma (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
- Ptolemaic coinage
- Seleucid coinage
- Bactrian coinage
Ancient Lebanon[]
- Tyrian shekel
Ancient Lydia[]
- Stater (electrum and silver)
- (electrum third of a stater)
- (electrum sixth of a stater)
Ancient Persia[]
- Daric (gold)
- Sigloi (silver)
- Persian coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Elymais coinage
Ancient Rome[]
- 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[]
Ancient Israel[]
- 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[]
- Dram
Africa[]
- Ajuran currency
- Aksumite currency
- Mogadishu currency
- Dollar - Rhodesia
- Dinar - Sudan
- Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
- Escudo
- Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Franc
- Algerian franc
- French Camerounian franc
- Moroccan franc
- Malagasy franc
- Malian franc
- Katanga Cross - Zaire
- 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
- 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[]
- - 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[]
- Yen - Taiwan
- Old Taiwan dollar
Iran[]
- Qiran - Iran
- Achaemenid currency - Iran
- Elymais - Iran
Japan[]
- Yen
- Military yen
- Invasion money
- B yen
Korean[]
- Hwan - Korea
- Mun
- Yang
- Imperial Won
- yen - Korea
Malaya[]
- Tin Animal Money
- Tin ingot
- 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
- Sumatran dollar
Philippines[]
- Gold Coinages
- Silver Coinage
- Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
- Sampaloc Barillas
- Dos Mundos
- Sulu coins- Philippines
- Piso
- Philippine peso fuerte
- Guerilla pesos
Vietnam[]
Historical money of Tibet[]
India[]
- Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha Dynasty
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- Rupee
- Vijayanagara coinage
Other currencies[]
- Keping
- Dollar
- Baht - Thailand
- Escudo
- Kushan Coinage
- Lira - Israel
- Mohar - Nepal
- Pound
- Israeli pound
- Jordanian pound
- Palestine pound
- Ruble - Tajikistan
- Bhutanese rupee
- Burmese rupee
- Gulf rupee - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates
- Javan rupee
Oceania[]
- Pound
- Australian pound
- Fijian pound
- New Zealand pound
- Solomon Islands pound
- Tongan pound
- Western Samoan pound
Modern Europe[]
- European Currency Unit and 21 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- Austrian schilling
- Belgian franc
- 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
- Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (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) - Republic of Ireland
- Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin) - Republic of Ireland
- Halfpenny (New Zealand) - New Zealand
- Halfpenny (Scotland) - Scotland
- Koruna
- Czechoslovak koruna
- Bohemian and Moravian koruna
- 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
- Estonian mark
- German Goldmark
- German Ostmark
- German Papiermark
- German Reichsmark
- German Rentenmark
- Marka - 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
- Ruble - former Soviet Union
- Rublis - Latvia
- Scudo
- Italian scudo - Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
- Maltese scudo
- Spesmilo
- Talonas - Lithuania
- Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
- Threepence - Great Britain
- Threepence (Australian)
- Threepence (British coin)
- Threepence (Irish coin)
- Złoty
- Polish złoty (Poland)
Transcaucasia[]
- Abazi - Georgia
- Maneti - Georgia
- Ruble
- Armenian ruble
- Azerbaijani ruble
- Transcaucasian ruble
International[]
- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
- Bitcoin, 2009-Present. Global decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency.
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