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

Main article: Carthaginian coinage

• Litra
• Shekel

Etruscan

Main article: Etruscan coins

• As

Rome

Main article: Roman currency

• 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

See also: Ancient Chinese coinage

• 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 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

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)

The formerly used Artsakh dram, was not used in day-to-day commerce, but was legal tender in their issuing jurisdiction.

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

• Money portal
• Numismatics portal

• List of circulating currencies