List of historical currencies

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This is a list of historic currencies.

Contents 1 Ancient Greece 2 Ancient Rome 3 Africa 4 America 5 Asia 6 Australasia 7 Caribbean 8 Europe

[edit] Ancient Greece

• Drachma
  • Seleucid coinage

[edit] Ancient Rome

• Antoninianus
• As
• Denarius
• Dupondius
• Roman provincial coins
• Sestertius
• Solidus

[edit] Africa

• Aksumite currency
• Dollar - Rhodesia
• Escudo
  • Mozambican escudo - Mozambique
  • São Tomé and Príncipe escudo - São Tomé and Príncipe
• Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
• Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
• Franc
  • French Camerounian franc
  • Moroccan franc
  • Madagascan franc
  • Malian franc
• Metica - Mozambique
• Peseta - Equatorial Guinea
• Peso - Guinea Bissau
• Pound
  • Biafran pound
  • Gambian pound - Gambia
  • Ghanaian pound - Ghana
  • Libyan pound - Libya
  • Malawian pound - Malaŵi
  • Nigerian pound - Nigeria
  • Rhodesian pound - Rhodesia
  • South African pound - South Africa
  • West African pound - Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
  • Zambian pound
• Rial - Morocco
• Rupee - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
• Shilling - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
• Syli - Guinea
• Zaire - Zaire

[edit] America

• Austral - Argentina
• Continental Currency - Colonial America
• Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil
• Escudo - Chile
• Inti - Peru
• Peso
  • Bolivian peso
  • Costa Rican peso
  • Guatemalan peso
  • Honduran peso
  • Nicaraguan peso
  • Paraguayan peso
• Scudo - Bolivia
• Sucre - Ecuador
• Trade dollar - United States of America

[edit] Asia

• Achaemenid currency - Iran
• Customs gold unit - China
• Dollar - Mongolia
• South Vietnamese đồng - South Vietnam
• Elymais - Iran
• Timor Escudo - East Timor
• Hwan - Korea
• Mohar - Nepal
• Pound
  • Israeli pound - Israel
  • Jordanian pound
  • Palestinian pound
• Ruble - Tajikistan
• Rupee
  • Gulf rupee - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE
  • Burmese rupee - Burma
• Tael - China

[edit] Australasia

• Pound
  • Australian pound
  • Fijian pound
  • New Zealand pound
  • Samoan pound
  • Solomon Islands pound
  • Tongan pound

[edit] Caribbean

• Pound
  • Bahamian pound
  • Bermuda pound
  • Jamaican pound

[edit] Europe

• 15 national currencies which were replaced by the Euro in 2002:
  • Andorran peseta
  • Austrian Schilling
  • Belgian franc
  • Dutch gulden
  • Finnish markka
  • French franc
  • German Mark
  • Greek drachma
  • Irish pound
  • Italian lira
  • Luxembourgish franc
  • Portuguese escudo
  • Sammarinese lira
  • Spanish peseta
  • Vatican lira
• Daler
  • Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
  • Rijkdaalder - Netherlands
  • Riksdaler - Sweden
  • Speciedaler - Norway
• Dinar
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
  • Croatian dinar
  • Yugoslav dinar
• Ducat - throughout Europe
• Florin - Austria
• Gulden - Germany and Austria
• Lira - Turkey
• Karbovanets - Ukraine
• Mark
  • German Goldmark
  • German Papiermark
  • German Rentenmark
  • German Reichsmark
  • East German Mark
  • German Ostmark
• Marka - Poland
• Real
  • Spanish real (plural reales)
  • Portuguese real (plural réis)
  • Gibraltarian real
• Rubļis - Latvia
• Perper
  • Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perper
  • Serbian perper
  • Montenegrin perper
• Perun
• Scudo
  • Italian scudo - Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
  • Maltese scudo - Malta
• Peso - Spain
• Talonas - Lithuania
• Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
  • Conventionsthaler
  • Reichsthaler
  • Vereinsthaler