Numismatics portal

This is a list of historic currencies.

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)
  • Roman currency
  • Roman provincial coins
  • Roman Republican coinage

Ancient Israel

• Shekel (silver)
• Zuz (silver)
• 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

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