List of historical currencies
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[edit] Ancient Persia
- Daric
- Sigloi
- Persian coinage
- Persis coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Sassanian coinage
[edit] Ancient Greece
[edit] Ancient Rome
[edit] Ancient Israel
- Shekel
- Zuz
- Prutah
- Yehud coinage
- Hashmonean coinage
- Herodian coinage
- Roman Procurator coinage
- First Revolt coinage
- Judaea Capta coinage
- Bar Kochba Revolt coinage
[edit] Africa
- Aksumite currency
- Dollar - Rhodesia
- Dinar - Sudan
- Escudo
- Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
- 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
[edit] America
[edit] Canada before 1860s
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- copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century
- 5-sol French coin and silver coins - New France
- Spanish-American coins- unoffical
- playing cards 1685 New France
- 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire - early 17th Century New France
- Gold Louis - 1720 New France
- Card Currency 1729-1760 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
- Escudo - Chile
- Inti - Peru
- Peso
- Scudo - Bolivia
- Sucre - Ecuador
- Trade dollar - United States of America
[edit] Asia
- Achaemenid currency - Iran
- Cash - China
- Customs gold unit - China
- Dollar
- South Vietnamese đồng
- Elymais - Iran
- Jiaozi (currency) - China
- Escudo
- Hwan - Korea
- Keping
- Lira - Israel
- Mohar - Nepal
- Mon - Japan
- Pound
- Qiran - Iran
- Ruble - Tajikistan
- Rupee
- Ryō - Japan
- Tael - China
- Xu - [South Vietnam]
[edit] Australasia
[edit] Caribbean
[edit] Europe
- 16 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- Auksinas - Lithuania
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijkdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin - Austria
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets - Ukraine
- Korona - Hungary
- Mark
- Marka - Poland
- Pengő - Hungary
- Perper
- Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perper
- Serbian perper
- Montenegrin perper
- Perun
- Peso - Spain
- Real
- Spanish real (plural reales)
- Portuguese real (plural réis)
- Gibraltarian real
- Rublis - Latvia
- Scudo
- Talonas - Lithuania
- Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary