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

Phoenicia

 * Tyrian shekel

Lydia

 * Stater (electrum and silver)
 * Trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
 * Hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
 * Lydian coin

Egypt (Dynasty 30)

 * Nefernub (Gold Stater)

Persia

 * Daric (gold)
 * Sigloi (silver)
 * Persian coinage
 * Persis coinage
 * Parthian coinage
 * Sassanian coinage
 * Elymais coinage

Carthage

 * Litra
 * Shekel

Etruscan

 * As

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

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
 * 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

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

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

Indonesia

 * Sumatran dollar
 * Javan rupee
 * Oeang Republik Indonesia (ORI)

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

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
 * lượng
 * văn

Historical money of Tibet

 * Tibetan skar
 * Tibetan srang
 * Tibetan tangka

India

 * Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha dynasty
 * Portuguese Indian rupia
 * Portuguese Indian escudo
 * French Indian rupee
 * Travancore Rupee
 * 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

Oceania

 * Pound
 * Australian pound
 * Fijian pound
 * New Zealand pound
 * Solomon Islands pound
 * Tongan pound
 * Western Samoan pound
 * Rai stones – Yap

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
 * Serbian dinar
 * Yugoslav dinar – former Yugoslavia
 * Ducat – throughout Europe
 * Écu
 * 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
 * Gold coin
 * 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) – Ireland
 * Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin) – Ireland
 * Halfpenny (New Zealand) – New Zealand
 * Halfpenny (Scotland) – Scotland
 * Ilgasis – Kingdom of Lithuania
 * Koruna
 * Czechoslovak koruna
 * Bohemian and Moravian koruna
 * Slovak koruna (1939–1945)
 * Leu
 * Romanian leu
 * Moldovan leu
 * Libra jaquesa
 * Lira
 * Neapolitan lira
 * Turkish lira
 * Venetian lira
 * Livre
 * French livre
 * Luxembourgian livre
 * Karbovanets – Ukraine
 * Korona – Hungary
 * Mark
 * East German 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
 * Potin
 * 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
 * Silver coin
 * Spesmilo
 * Stater
 * Talonas – Lithuania
 * Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary
 * Conventionsthaler
 * Reichsthaler
 * Vereinsthaler
 * Threepence – Great Britain
 * Threepence (Australian)
 * Threepence (British coin)
 * Threepence (Irish coin)
 * Złoty
 * Polish złoty (Poland)

South Caucasus

 * Abazi – Georgia
 * Artsakh dram – Artsakh
 * 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.