# 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)
** 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

* 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

### 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 23 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

### 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
* 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.