List of historical currencies
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This is a list of historical currencies.
Ancient Lydia
- PUTANGINAMO (electrum and silver)
- Belekoy (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
- Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
- Lydian coin
Ancient Persia
- Daric (gold)
- Sigloi (silver)
- Persian coinage
- Persis coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Sassanian coinage
- Elymais coinage
Ancient Greece
- Aeginian stater (silver)
- Corinthian stater (silver)
- Athenian drachma (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
- Alexandrian coinage
- Ptolemaic coinage
- Seleucid coinage
- Bactrian 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
Ancient Armenia
- Dahekan
- Dang
- Dram
- P'ogh
- Kartez
- Tagvorin
Africa
- Ajuran currency
- Aksumite currency
- Mogadishu currency
- Dollar - Rhodesia
- 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
Americas
- Austral - Argentina
- Continental - Colonial America
- Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil
- Escudo - Chile
- Inti - Peru
- Peso
- Scudo - Bolivia
- Sucre - Ecuador
- Trade dollar - United States of America
Canada before 1860s
- copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century
- 5-sol French coin and silver coins - New France
- Spanish-American coins- unofficial
- 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
Caribbean
- Dollar
- Dominican dollar
- Grenadan dollar
- Pound
Asia
- Achaemenid currency - Iran
- Cash - China
- Customs gold unit - China
- Dollar
- Dồng - Vietnam
- Elymais - Iran
- Escudo
- Hwan - Korea
- Jiaozi (currency) - China
- Keping
- Kushan Coinage
- Lira - Israel
- Mohar - Nepal
- Mon - Japan
- Pound
- Israeli pound
- Jordanian pound
- Palestine pound
- Qiran - Iran
- Ruble - Tajikistan
- Rupee
- Bhutanese rupee
- Burmese rupee
- Gulf rupee - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates
- Hyderabadi rupee
- Javan rupee
- Ryō - Japan
- Tael - China
- Historical money of Tibet - Tibet
- Vijayanagara coinage
- Xu - South Vietnam
Australia
Europe
- 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 lat
- Luxembourgish franc
- Maltese lira
- Monegasque franc
- Portuguese escudo
- Sammarinese lira
- Slovak koruna
- Slovenian tolar
- Spanish peseta
- Vatican lira
- Akçe
- Auksinas - Lithuania
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijksdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin - Austria
- Florin - Aragon
- Florin - Great Britain
- Double Florin- Great Britain
- Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
- Groat - Great Britain
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Half crown - Great Britain
- Halfpenny
- Leu
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets - Ukraine
- Korona - Hungary
- Mark
- Marka - Poland
- Pengő - Hungary
- 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
Transcaucasia
- Abazi - Georgia
- Maneti - Georgia
- Ruble
- Armenian ruble
- Azerbaijani ruble
- Transcaucasian ruble
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