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This is alist of historical currencies.

• 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

• Tyrian shekel

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

• Nefernub (Gold Stater)

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

• Litra
• Shekel

• As

• 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

• 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)

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

• 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 andUganda
• 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 andSierra Leone
  • Gambian pound
  • Ghanaian pound
  • Libyan pound
  • Malawian pound
  • Nigerian pound
  • Rhodesian pound
  • South African pound
  • Zambian pound
• Rial –Morocco
• Rupee –Kenya,Somalia,Tanzania andUganda
• Shilling –Kenya,Somalia,Tanzania andUganda
• Syli –Guinea
• Zaire –Zaire

• Axe-money – Western Mesoamerica and Northern Andes
• Cocoa bean – Mesoamerica
• copper –Ojibway
• Cotton fabric – Mesoamerica

• 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

• 5-sol French coin and silver coins –New France
• Spanish-American coins- unofficial
• Playing cards – 1685-1760s, sometimes officiallyNew France
• 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire – early 17th century New France
• Gold Louis – 1720New France
• Sol and Double Sol 1738–1764
• English coins early 19th century
• Tokens and Army Bills – War of 1812
• BritishShinplaster 1870s
• United States silver coins 1868–1869

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

• Mexican dollar
• Mexican real
• OriginalMexican peso – replaced by the nuevo peso (MXN), now just called peso, in 1993

• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 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 andBrunei
• Sarawak dollar
• Straits dollar –Straits Settlements

• 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

• Yen –Taiwan
• Old Taiwan dollar

• Tibetan skar
• Tibetan srang
• Tibetan tangka

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

• 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 andUnited Arab Emirates

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

• European Currency Unit and 23 national currencies which were replaced by theeuro:
  • 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 andNorway
  • Rijksdaalder –Netherlands
  • Riksdaler –Sweden
  • Speciedaler –Norway
• Dinar
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
  • Croatian dinar
  • Serbian dinar
  • Yugoslav dinar – formerYugoslavia
• Double -Bailiwick ofGuernsey
• Ducat – throughout Europe
• Écu
• Florin
  • Florin –Austria
  • Florin –Aragon
  • Florin –England
  • Florin –Great Britain
  • Double Florin –Great Britain
  • Florin –Italy andItalian city-states
• Farthing –Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) andIreland (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 andAustria
• 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 occupiedeastern 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 andIreland
• Peso –Spain
• Potin
• Real
  • Spanish real (plural reales)
  • Portuguese real (plural réis)
  • Gibraltar real
• Rouble – formerSoviet Union
• Rublis –Latvia
• Scudo
  • Italian scudo –Lombardy-Venetia,Modena andPapal 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)

• Abazi –Georgia
• Artsakh dram –Artsakh
• Rouble
  • Armenian rouble
  • Azerbaijani rouble
  • Georgian rouble
  • Transcaucasian rouble

• Stelo, 1945–1993 monetary unit used byEsperantists.

• List of circulating currencies

• Currency lists
• Lists of former entities

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Incomplete lists from November 2020