List Of Historical Currencies
This is a list of historical currencies.
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
Ancient Lebanon
Ancient Lydia
Ancient Persia
- Daric (gold)
- Sigloi (silver)
- Persian coinage
- Persis coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Sassanian coinage
- Elymais coinage
Ancient Rome
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
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
Taiwan
Indonesia
- Sumatran dollar
- Javan rupee
- Oeang Republik Indonesia (ORI)
Iran
Japan
Korean
Malaya
- Tin Animal Money
- Tin ingot
- Sumatran dudu
- 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
Philippines
- Gold Coinages
- Silver Coinage
- Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
- Sampaloc Barillas
- Dos Mundos
- Sulu coins- Philippines
- Piso
Vietnam
Historical money of Tibet
India
- Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha Dynasty
- Portuguese Indian rupia
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- French Indian rupee
- Travancore Rupee
- Rupee
- Vijayanagara coinage
Other currencies
Oceania
Modern Europe
- European Currency Unit and 22 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
- Akçe
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijksdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin
- Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
- Genovino - Republic of Genoa
- Groat - Great Britain
- Grzywna/Hryvnia
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Half crown - Great Britain
- Halfpenny
- Koruna
- Leu
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets - Ukraine
- Korona - Hungary
- Mark
- 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
- Rouble - former Soviet Union
- Rublis - Latvia
- Scudo
- Spesmilo
- Talonas - Lithuania
- Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
- Threepence - Great Britain
- Złoty
- Polish złoty (Poland)
South Caucasus
International
- Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
- Bitcoin, 2009–Present. Global decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency.
See also
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