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WORLD & ANCIENT

Ancient Persia

• Daric (gold)

• Sigloi (silver)

  • Persian coinage

  • Persis coinage

  • Parthian coinage

  • Sassanian coinage

  • Elymais coinage

Ancient Greece

• Aeginian stater (gold)

• Corinthian stater (silver )

• Athenian drachma (silver)

• Stater (silver)

• Tetradrachm (silver)

• Drachma (silver)

  • Alexandrian coinage

  • Ptolemaic coinage

  • Seleucid coinage

  • Bactrian coinage

Ancient 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

Europe

• Potin

• Stater

• Écu

• Florin

Ancient 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 - Rhodesia

• 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

  • 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

Americas

• Austral - Argentina

• Continental - Colonial America

• Cruzeiro, Cruzado - Brazil

• Cocoa bean - Aztec Empire

• Escudo - Chile

• Inti - Peru

• Reale-Peso-Escudo

  • Bolivian 

  • Costa Rican 

  • Dominican 

  • Guatemalan 

  • Honduran 

  • Nicaraguan 

  • Paraguayan 

• Scudo - Bolivia

• Sucre - Ecuador

Canada before 1860s

• copper - used by Ojibway c.16th Century

• 5-sol French coin and silver coins - New France

• Spanish-American coins- unofficial

• Playing cards - 1685-1760s, sometimes officially New France

• 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire - early 17th Century New France

• Gold Louis - 1720 New France

• Sol and Double Sol 1738-1764

• English coins early 19th Century

• Tokens and Army Bills - War of 1812

• British Shinplaster 1870s

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China

• 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

• Chinese Dollars

Japan

• Ryō

• Mon

• Japanese cash

• Gold plates

  • Ōban

  • Koban

  • Ichibuban

Philippines

• 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

India

• Hon and Shivrai of the Maratha Dynasty

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  • Portuguese Indian escudo

• Rupee

  • Hyderabadi rupee

• Vijayanagara coinage

Europe

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  • Austrian schilling

  • Belgian franc

  • 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

  • Portuguese escudo

  • Slovak koruna

  • Slovenian tolar

  • Spanish peseta

  • Vatican lira

• Akçe

• Daler

  • Rigsdaler - Denmark and Norway

  • Rijksdaalder - Netherlands

  • Riksdaler - Sweden

  • Speciedaler - Norway

• Dinar

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar

  • Croatian dinar

  • Yugoslav dinar - former Yugoslavia

• Ducat - throughout Europe

• Florin

  • Florin - Austria

  • Florin - Aragon

  • Florin - England

  • Florin - Great Britain

  • Double Florin - Great Britain

  • Florin - Italy and Italian city-states

• Farthing - Great Britain (Farthing (British coin)) and Ireland (Farthing (Irish coin))

  • Farthing (British coin)

  • Farthing (Irish coin)

• Genovino - Republic of Genoa

• Groat - Great Britain

• Grzywna - throughout Eastern Europe

• Gulden - Germany and Austria

• Half crown - Great Britain

• Halfpenny

  • Halfpenny (Australian) - Australia

  • Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin) - Great Britain

  • Halfpenny (Irish pre-decimal coin) - Republic of Ireland

  • Halfpenny (Irish decimal coin) - Republic of Ireland

  • Halfpenny (New Zealand) - New Zealand

  • Halfpenny (Scotland) - Scotland

• Koruna

  • Czechoslovak koruna

  • Bohemian and Moravian koruna

• Leu

  • Romanian leu

  • Moldovan leu

• Lira

  • Neapolitan lira

  • Turkish lira

  • Venetian lira

• Livre

  • French livre

  • Luxembourgian livre

• Karbovanets - Ukraine

• Korona - Hungary

• Mark

  • East German Mark

  • Estonian mark

  • German Goldmark

  • German Ostmark

  • German Papiermark

  • German Reichsmark

  • German Rentenmark

• Marka - Poland

• Pengő - Hungary

• Perper

  • Ragusian (Dubrovnik) perpera

  • Serbian perper

  • Montenegrin perper

• Perun

• Qirsh

• Shilling - Great Britain and others

• Sixpence - Great Britain and Ireland

• Peso - Spain

• Real

  • Spanish real (plural reales)

  • Portuguese real (plural réis)

  • Gibraltar real

• Ruble - former Soviet Union

• Rublis - Latvia

• Scudo

  • Italian scudo - Lombardy-Venetia, Modena and Papal States

  • Maltese scudo

• Spesmilo

• Talonas - Lithuania

• Thaler - Germany, Austria, Hungary

  • Conventionsthaler

  • Reichsthaler

  • Vereinsthaler

• Threepence - Great Britain

  • Threepence (Australian)

  • Threepence (British coin)

  • Threepence (Irish coin)

• Złoty

  • Polish złoty (Poland)

Transcaucasia

• Abazi - Georgia

• Maneti - Georgia

• Ruble

  • Armenian ruble

  • Azerbaijani ruble

  • Transcaucasian ruble

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Empires

Egyptian Empire (3100BC to 30 BC)
Norte Chico Empire (3000-1800 BC) 
Indus Valley: Empires: Harappa and Mohenjo-Darro (2550-1550 BC) 
Akkadian Empire (2500-2000 BC) 
Babylonian Empire (1792-1595 BC) 
Ancient Chinese Empires: Shang (1751-1111 BC), Chou (1000-800 BC), etc. 
Hittite Empire (1500-1200 BC) 
Assyrian Empire (1244-612 BC) 
Persian Empires (550 BC to 637 AD) including Achemenid Empire (550-330 BC), Sassanian Empire (224 BC-651 AD) 
Carthaginian Empire (ca. 475-146 BC) 
Athenian Empire (461-440 BC, 362-355 BC) 
Macedonian Empire (359-323 BC) 
Roman Empire (264 BC to 476 AD) 
Parthian Empire (247 BC- 224 AD)

African Empires: Ethiopian Empire (ca. 50-1974), Mali Empire (ca. 1210-1490), Songhai Empire (1468-1590), Fulani Empire (ca. 1800-1903) 
Mesoamerican Empires esp. Maya Empire (ca. 300-900) Teotihuacan Empire (ca. 500-750), Aztec Empire (1325-ca. 1500)
Byzantine Empire (330-1453)
Andean Empires: Huari Empire (600-800); Inca Empire (1438-1525)
Chinese Pre-Modern Empires: including T'ang Dynasty (618-906), Sung Dynasty (906-1278)
Islamic Empires esp. Umayyid/Abbasid (661-1258), Almohad (1140-1250), Almoravid (1050-1140)
Carolingian Empire (ca. 700-810)
Bulgarian Empire (802-827, 1197-1241)
Southeast Asian Empires: Khmer Empire (877-1431), Burmese Empire (1057-1287)
Novogorod Empire (882-1054)
Medieval German Empire (962-1250)
Danish Empire (1014-1035)
Indian Empires, including Chola Empire (11th cent), Empire of Mahmud of Ghazni (998-1039 AD), Mughal Empire (1526-1805)
Mongol Empire (1206-1405)
Mamluk Empire (1250-1517)
Holy Roman Empire (1254-1835)
Habsburg Empire (1452-1806)
Ottoman Empire (1453-1923)

Portuguese Empire (ca. 1450-1975)
Spanish Empire (1492-1898)
Russian Empire/USSR (1552-1991)
Swedish Empire (1560-1660)
Dutch Empire (1660-1962)
British Empire (1607-ca. 1980)
French Empire (ca. 1611- ca. 1980)
Modern Chinese Empire: esp. Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Austrian/Austro-Hungarian Empire (ca. 1700-1918) [see also Habsburg Empire] 
US Empire (1776-present)
Brazilian Empire (1822-1889)
German Empire (1871-1918, 1939-1945)
Japanese Empire (1871-1945)
Italian Empire (1889-1942)

Countries

Afghanistan-Albania-Anguilla-Argentina-Armenia-Australia-Austria-Bahamas--Belize-Bermuda-Bhutan-Bolivia-Botswana-Brazil-British -North Borneo-British West Africa-British West Indies-Bulgaria-Cambodia-Canada-Ceylon-Chad -Chile-China-Colombia-Costa Rica-Crete-Croatia -Crusader States-Cuba -Cyprus-Czechoslovakia -Dahomey- Danish West Indies-Danzig-Denmark -Dominica-Dominican Rep.-East Africa-Ecuador-Egypt- El Salvador- Equatorial Guinea -Eritrea -Essequibo & Demerary-Estonia-Ethiopia-Falkland Islands- Fiji-Finland-France-French Guiana-Gabon -German East Africa-German New Guinea-German States-Germany-Gibraltar-Great Britain-Gold Coast-Greece-Guadeloupe-Guatemala-Haiti-Honduras-Hong KonG-Hungary-Iceland-India-Indonesia-Timor -Ionian Islands-Iran-Iraq-Ireland- Islamic-Isle of Man -Israel-Italian Somalil and Italian States- Italy- Ivory Coast-Jamaica-Japan-Jersey-Jordan-Korea-Kuwait- Latvia- Liberia-Liechtenstein- Lithuania -Luxembourg- Macau-Madagascar-Malaysia-Malta -Martinique-Mauritius-Mexican States-Mexico - Mombasa-Monaco- Mongolia -Montenegro-Morocco-Mozambique-Myanmar-Nepal-Netherlands-Netherlands Antilles-Netherlands East Indies-Netherlands/Dutch States-New Zealand-Nicaragua-Norway-Oman-Pakistan-Palestine-Panama-Papua New Guinea- Paraguay-Peru-Philippines-Poland-Portugal-Puerto Rico-Reunion-Rhodesia-Romania-Russia-San Marino-Sarawak-Saudi Arabia-Serbia-Seychelles-Sierra Leone-Somalia-South Africa-Spain-Straits Settlements-Sudan-Sumatra-Sweden-Switzerland-Syria-Tanzania-Thailand-Togo-Tonga-Transylvania-Tunisia-Turkey-United Arab Emirates-Uruguay-Venezuela -Vietnam-Yemen-Yugoslavia

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