List of historical currencies

This is a list of historical currencies.

Ancient Mediterranean

Greece

• Aeginian stater (gold)
• Corinthian stater (silver)
• Aurous
• Athenian drachma (silver)
• Stater (silver)
• Tetradrachm (silver)
• Drachma (silver) OBOL (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
• Rhodesian dollar
• Sierra Leonean dollar
• Zimbabwean dollar
• Zimbabwean dollar (2019–2024)
• 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

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 and the United States

• 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
• Vermont copper 1785-1791

Caribbean

• Dollar
• Dominican dollar
• Grenadian dollar
• Pound
• Bahamian pound
• Bermudian pound
• Jamaican pound
• Netherlands Antillean guilder

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

India

• Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha dynasty
• Portuguese Indian rupia
• Portuguese Indian escudo
• French Indian rupee
• Travancore Rupee
• Rupee
• Hyderabadi rupee
• Vijayanagara coinage

Indonesia

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

Iran

• Qiran – Iran
• Achaemenid currency – Iran
• Elymais – Iran

Israel

• Palestine pound – Mandate for Palestine
• Israeli pound (or Lira) – Israel
• Old Israeli Shekel – Israel

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

Taiwan

• Yen – Taiwan
• Old Taiwan dollar

Tibet

• Tibetan skar
• Tibetan srang
• Tibetan tangka

Vietnam

• Đồng – Vietnam
• Xu – South Vietnam
• lượng
• văn

Other currencies

• Keping
• Kelantan keping
• Trengganu keping
• Dollar
• Mongolian dollar
• Baht – Thailand
• Escudo
• Portuguese Timorese escudo
• Kushan Coinage
• Mohar – Nepal
• 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

Currencies replaced by the euro

• European Currency Unit and 24 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
• Austrian schilling
• Belgian franc
• Bulgarian lev
• 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

Other historical currencies

• 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
• Double - Bailiwick of Guernsey
• 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.

See also

• List of circulating currencies