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This is a list of historic currencies.
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Ancient Lydia
- Stater (electrum and silver)
- trite (coin) (electrum third of a stater)
- hekte (electrum sixth of a stater)
- Lydian coinage
Ancient Persia
- Daric (gold)
- Sigloi (silver)
- Persian coinage
- Persis coinage
- Parthian coinage
- Sassanian coinage
Ancient Greece
- Aeginian stater (silver)
- Corinthian stater (silver)
- Athenian stater (silver)
- Stater (silver)
- Tetradrachm (silver)
- Drachma (silver)
- Alexandrian coinage
- Ptolemaic coinage
- Seleucid coinage
- Bactrian coinage
Ancient Rome
- Aureus (gold)
- Denarius (silver)
- Sestertius (bronze)
- Dupondius (bronze)
- As (copper)
- Antoninianus
- Argenteus (silver)
- Follis
- Solidus (gold)
- Tremissis (gold)
- Talent (silver, gold)
Ancient Israel
Africa
- Aksumite currency
- Dollar - Rhodesia
- Dinar - Sudan
- Escudo
- Ekwele (Ekuele) - Equatorial Guinea
- Florin - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Franc
- Katanga Cross - Zaire
- Lira
- Metica - Mozambique
- Peseta - Equatorial Guinea
- Peso - Guinea Bissau
- Pound
- Rial - Morocco
- Rupee - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Shilling - Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- Syli - Guinea
- Zaire - Zaire
America
Canada before 1860s
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- 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
- Scudo - Bolivia
- Sucre - Ecuador
- Trade dollar - United States of America
Asia
- Achaemenid currency - Iran
- Cash - China
- Customs gold unit - China
- Dollar
- South Vietnamese đồng
- Elymais - Iran
- Jiaozi (currency) - China
- Escudo
- Hwan - Korea
- Keping
- Lira - Israel
- Kushan Coinage
- Mohar - Nepal
- Mon - Japan
- Pound
- Qiran - Iran
- Ruble - Tajikistan
- Rupee
- Ryō - Japan
- Tael - China
- Vijayanagara coinage
- Xu - [South Vietnam]
Australasia
Caribbean
Europe
- 16 national currencies which were replaced by the euro:
- Auksinas - Lithuania
- Daler
- Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway
- Rijkdaalder - Netherlands
- Riksdaler - Sweden
- Speciedaler - Norway
- Akçe
- Dinar
- Ducat - throughout Europe
- Florin - Austria
- Gulden - Germany and Austria
- Leu
- Lira
- Livre
- Karbovanets - Ukraine
- Korona - Hungary
- Mark
- 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
- Spesmilo
- Talonas - Lithuania
- Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary
Transcaucasia
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