# List of historical currencies

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This is a list of historical currencies.

## Key facts

## Overview

This is a list of historical currencies.

## Greece

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

## 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

Litra Shekel

## Etruscan

As

## Rome

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

## Sources

- List of historical currencies · Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=3347978

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