List of historical currencies

This is a list of historic currencies.

Ancient Persia

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

Ancient Greece

*Tetradrachm (silver)
*Drachma (silver)
**Seleucid coinage

Ancient Rome

*Aureus (gold)
*Denarius (silver)
*Sestertius (bronze)
*Dupondius (bronze)
*As (copper)
*Antoninianus
*Argenteus (silver)
*Follis
*Solidus (gold)
*Tremissis (gold)
**Roman currency
**Roman provincial coins
**Roman Republican coinage

Ancient Israel

*Shekel (silver)
*Zuz (silver)
*Prutah (bronze/copper)
**Yehud coinage
**Hashmonean coinage
**Herodian coinage
**Roman Procurator coinage
**First Jewish Revolt coinage
**Judaea Capta coinage
**Bar Kochba Revolt coinage

Africa

*Aksumite currency
*Dollar - Rhodesia
*Dinar - Sudan
*Escudo
**Angolan escudo
**Mozambican escudo
**Portuguese Guinean escudo
**São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
*Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
*Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
*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
**Gambian pound
**Ghanaian pound
**Libyan pound
**Malawian pound
**Nigerian pound
**Rhodesian pound
**South African pound
**West African pound - Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
**Zambian pound
*Rial - Morocco
*Rupee - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
*Shilling - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
*Syli - Guinea
*Zaire - Zaire

America

*Austral - Argentina
*Continental - Colonial America
*Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil

Canada before 1860s

** copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century
** 5-sol French coin and silver coins - New France
** Spanish-American coins- unoffical
** playing cards 1685 New France
** 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire - early 17th Century New France
** Gold Louis - 1720 New France
** Card Currency 1729-1760 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

*Escudo - Chile
*Inti - Peru
*Peso
**Bolivian peso
**Costa Rican peso
**Guatemalan peso
**Honduran peso
**Nicaraguan peso
**Paraguayan peso
*Scudo - Bolivia
*Sucre - Ecuador
*Trade dollar - United States of America

Asia

*Achaemenid currency - Iran
*Cash - China
*Customs gold unit - China
*Dollar
**British North Borneo dollar
**Malayan dollar
**Malaya and British Borneo dollar - Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei
**Mongolian dollar
**Sarawak dollar
**Straits dollar - Straits Settlements
**Sumatran dollar
**Old Taiwan dollar
*South Vietnamese đồng
*Elymais - Iran
*Jiaozi (currency) - China
*Escudo
**Portuguese Indian escudo
**Portuguese Timorese escudo
*Hwan - Korea
*Keping
**Kelantan keping
**Trengganu keping
*Lira - Israel
*Kushan Coinage
*Mohar - Nepal
*Mon - Japan
*Pound
**Israeli pound
**Jordanian pound
**Palestinian pound
*Qiran - Iran
*Ruble - Tajikistan
*Rupee
**Bhutanese rupee
**Burmese rupee
**Gulf rupee - Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and UAE
**Javan rupee
*Ryō - Japan
*Tael - China
*Vijayanagara coinage
*Xu - [South Vietnam]

Australasia

*Pound
**Australian pound
**Fijian pound
**New Zealand pound
**Samoan pound
**Solomon Islands pound
**Tongan pound

Caribbean

*Pound
**Bahamian pound
**Bermudian pound
**Jamaican pound
*Dollar
**Dominican dollar
**Grenadan dollar

Europe

*16 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
**Andorran peseta
**Austrian Schilling
**Belgian franc
**Cypriot pound
**Dutch gulden
**Finnish markka
**French franc
**German Mark
**Greek drachma
**Irish pound
**Italian lira
**Luxembourgish franc
**Maltese lira
**Portuguese escudo
**Sammarinese lira
**Slovenian tolar
**Spanish peseta
**Vatican lira
*Auksinas - Lithuania
*Daler
**Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
**Rijkdaalder - Netherlands
**Riksdaler - Sweden
**Speciedaler - Norway
*Akçe
*Dinar
**Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar
**Croatian dinar
**Yugoslav dinar - former Yugoslavia
*Ducat - throughout Europe
*Florin - Austria
*Gulden - Germany and Austria
*Lira
**Neapolitan lira
**Turkish lira
*Livre
**French livre
**Luxembourgish livre
*Karbovanets - Ukraine
*Korona - Hungary
*Mark
**German Goldmark
**German Papiermark
**German Rentenmark
**German Reichsmark
**East German Mark
**Ostmark
*Marka - Poland
*Pengő - Hungary
*Perper
** Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perper
** Serbian perper
** Montenegrin perper
*Perun
*Qirsh
*Peso - Spain
*Real
**Spanish real (plural reales)
**Portuguese real (plural réis)
**Gibraltarian real
*Soviet ruble - former Soviet Union
*Rublis - Latvia
*Scudo
**Italian scudo - Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States
**Maltese scudo
*Talonas - Lithuania
*Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
**Conventionsthaler
**Reichsthaler
**Vereinsthaler

Transcaucasia

*Abazi
**Georgian abazi
*Maneti
**Georgian maneti
*Ruble
**Armenian ruble
**Azerbaijani ruble
**Transcaucasian ruble