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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

• Tyrian shekel

Ancient Lydia

• Stater (electrum and silver)
• Trite (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 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

• Potin
• Stater
• Gold coin
• Silver coin
• Écu
• Florin

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

• Dahekan
• Dang
• Dram
• P'ogh
• Kartez
• Tagvorin

Africa

• Ajuran currency
• Aksumite currency
• Mogadishu currency
• Dollar - Rhodesia
• Dinar - Sudan
• Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
• Escudo
  • Angolan escudo
  • Mozambican escudo
  • Portuguese Guinean escudo
  • São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
• Fanery - Madagascar
• Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
• Franc
  • Algerian franc
  • French Camerounian franc
  • Moroccan franc
  • Malagasy franc
  • Malian franc
• Katanga Cross - Zaire
• Lira
  • Italian East African lira
  • Italian Somaliland lira
  • Tripolitanian 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
  • Bolivian peso
  • Costa Rican peso
  • Dominican peso
  • Guatemalan peso
  • Honduran peso
  • Nicaraguan peso
  • Paraguayan 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

• Dollar
  • Dominican dollar
  • Grenadian dollar
• Pound
  • Bahamian pound
  • Bermudian pound
  • Jamaican pound

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

• Yen - Taiwan
• Old Taiwan dollar

Iran

• Qiran - Iran
• Achaemenid currency - Iran
• Elymais - Iran

Japan

• Ryō
• Mon
• Japanese cash
• Gold plates
  • Ōban
  • Koban
  • Ichibuban
• Yen
  • Military yen
  • Invasion money
  • B yen

Korean

• Hwan - Korea
• Mun
• Yang
• Imperial Won
• yen - Korea

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
• Sumatran dollar

Philippines

• Gold Coinages
  • Piloncitos
  • Barter rings
• Silver Coinage
  • Hilis Kalamay (Silver cobs) -Philippines
  • Sampaloc Barillas
  • Dos Mundos
• Sulu coins- Philippines
• Piso
  • Philippine peso fuerte
  • Guerilla pesos

Vietnam

• Đồng - Vietnam
• Xu - South Vietnam
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• văn

Historical money of Tibet

• Tibetan skar
• Tibetan srang
• Tibetan tangka

India

• Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha Dynasty
• Portuguese Indian escudo
• Rupee
  • Hyderabadi rupee
• Vijayanagara coinage

Other currencies

• Keping
  • Kelantan keping
  • Trengganu keping
• Dollar
  • Mongolian dollar
• Baht - Thailand
• Escudo
  • Portuguese Timorese escudo
• Kushan Coinage
• Lira - Israel
• Mohar - Nepal
• Pound
  • Israeli pound
  • Jordanian pound
  • Palestine pound
• Rouble - 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 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
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
  • Croatian dinar
  • Yugoslav dinar - former Yugoslavia
• Ducat - throughout Europe
• Florin
  • Florin - Austria
  • Florin - Aragon
  • Florin - England
  • Florin - Great Britain
  • Double Florin - Great Britain
  • Florin - Italy and Italian city-states
• Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))
  • Farthing (British coin)
  • 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
  • Mark - German Democratic Republic
  • Estonian mark
  • Goldmark - German Reich
  • Ostmark - German occupied eastern Europe
  • Papiermark - German Reich
  • Reichsmark - German Reich
  • Rentenmark - German Reich
  • Mark - 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
• Rouble - former Soviet Union
• Rublis - Latvia
• Scudo
  • Italian scudo - Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
  • Maltese scudo
• Spesmilo
• Talonas - Lithuania
• Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
  • Conventionsthaler
  • Reichsthaler
  • Vereinsthaler
• Threepence - Great Britain
  • Threepence (Australian)
  • Threepence (British coin)
  • Threepence (Irish coin)
• Złoty
  • Polish złoty (Poland)

Transcaucasia

• Abazi - Georgia
• Rouble
  • Armenian rouble
  • Azerbaijani rouble
  • Georgian rouble
  • Transcaucasian rouble

International

• Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used by Esperantists.
• Bitcoin, 2009–Present. Global decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency.