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A list of all currencies, current and historic. The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region.

A

Afghani – Afghanistan

Akşa – Tuvan People's Republic

Angolar –Angola

Apsar – Abkhazia

Argentino – Argentina

Ariary – Madagascar

Austral – Argentina

Auksinas – Lithuania

B

Baht (บาท) – Thailand

Balboa – Panama

Birr – Ethiopia

Bitcoin – El Salvador

Bolívar – Venezuela

Boliviano – Bolivia

Budju – Algeria

C

Cedi – Ghana

Ceiniog – Gwynedd, Powys

Chervonets – Russia

Colón

Costa Rican colón – Costa Rica

Salvadoran colón – El Salvador

Continental currency – United States

Conventionsthaler – Holy Roman Empire

Copper – Vermont Republic

Córdoba – Nicaragua

Croat – Catalan Republic

Crown

Austrian crown – Austria

Austro-Hungarian crown – Austria-Hungary

Bohemian and Moravian crown – Bohemia and Moravia

British crown – United Kingdom

Danish crown – Denmark

English crown – Kingdom of England

Estonian crown – Estonia

Faroese crown – Faroe Islands

Fiume crown – Free State of Fiume

Greenlandic crown – Greenland

Hungarian crown – Hungary

Icelandic crown – Iceland

Liechtenstein crown – Liechtenstein

Norwegian crown – Norway

Swedish crown – Sweden

Yugoslav crown – Yugoslavia

Cruzado

Portuguese cruzado – Portugal

Brazilian cruzado – Brazil

Brazilian cruzado novo – Brazil

Cruzeiro

Brazilian cruzeiro (old) – Brazil

Brazilian cruzeiro novo – Brazil

Brazilian cruzeiro (3rd iteration) – Brazil

Brazilian cruzeiro real – Brazil

Cupon – Moldova

Cryptocurrency – Internet-based currency

Customs gold unit – Republic of China (1912–1949)

D

Dalasi – The Gambia

Daler – Danish West Indies

Denar – North Macedonia

Denier – France

Dinar (دينار)

Algerian dinar – Algeria

Bahraini dinar – Bahrain

Bosnia and Herzegovina dinar – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Croatian dinar – Croatia

Iraqi dinar – Iraq

Jordanian dinar – Jordan, Palestinian territories

Kelantanese dinar – Kelantan

Krajina dinar – Krajina

Kuwaiti dinar – Kuwait

Libyan dinar – Libya

Republika Srpska dinar – Republika Srpska

Serbian dinar – Serbia

South Yemeni dinar – South Yemen

Sudanese dinar – Sudan

Swiss dinar – Iraq

Tunisian dinar – Tunisia

Yugoslav dinar – Yugoslavia

Diner – Andorra (commemorative only)

Dinero – Spain

Dinheiro – Portugal

Dirham (درهم)

Moroccan dirham – Morocco

Emirati dirham – United Arab Emirates

Dobra – São Tomé and Príncipe

Dollar

Anguillan Liberty Dollar – Republic of Anguilla

Antigua dollar – Antigua

Australian dollar – Australia, Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu

Bahamian dollar – Bahamas

Barbadian dollar – Barbados

Belize dollar – Belize

Bermudian dollar – Bermuda

British Columbia dollar – British Columbia

British North Borneo dollar – British North Borneo

British West Indies dollar – British West Indies

Brunei dollar – Brunei

Canadian dollar – Canada

Cayman Islands dollar – Cayman Islands

Confederate States dollar – Confederate States of America

Continental dollar – Colonial America

Cook Islands dollar – Cook Islands

Dominican dollar – Dominica

Dogecoin - Cryptocurrency

East Caribbean dollar – Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

East Turkestan Dollar – Second East Turkestan Republic

Fijian dollar – Fiji

Grenadan dollar – Grenada

Guyanese dollar – Guyana

Hawaiian dollar – Hawaii

Hong Kong dollar – Hong Kong

International dollar – hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar

Jamaican dollar – Jamaica

Japanese government-issued dollar – Brunei, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak, Singapore (Japanese occupied)

Kiautschou dollar – Qingdao

Kiribati dollar – Kiribati

Liberian dollar – Liberia

Malaya and British Borneo dollar – Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei

Malayan dollar – Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore

Mauritian dollar – Mauritius

Mongolian dollar – Mongolia

Namibian dollar – Namibia

Nevisian dollar – Nevis

New Brunswick dollar – New Brunswick

New Zealand dollar – New Zealand, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Pitcairn Islands.

Newfoundland dollar – Newfoundland

Niue dollar – Niue (not an independent currency, same currency as New Zealand dollar with slight differences)

Nova Scotian dollar – Nova Scotia

Penang dollar – Penang

Pitcairn Islands dollar – Pitcairn Islands (not an independent currency)

Prince Edward Island dollar – Prince Edward Island

Puerto Rican dollar – Puerto Rico

Rhodesian dollar – Rhodesia

RTGS dollar – Zimbabwe

Saint Kitts dollar – Saint Kitts

Saint Lucia dollar – Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent dollar – Saint Vincent

Sarawak dollar – Sarawak

Sierra Leonean dollar – Sierra Leone

Singapore dollar – Singapore

Solomon Islands dollar – Solomon Islands

Straits dollar – Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore

Sumatran dollar – Sumatra

Surinamese dollar – Suriname

Old Taiwan dollar – Taiwan

New Taiwan dollar – Taiwan

Texas dollar – Republic of Texas

Tobagonian dollar – Tobago

Trinidadian dollar – Trinidad

Trinidad and Tobago dollar – Trinidad and Tobago

Tuvaluan dollar – Tuvalu (not an independent currency, equivalent to Australian dollar)

United States dollar – United States

See also International use of the U.S. dollar

Zimbabwean dollar – Zimbabwe

Đồng

North Vietnamese đồng – North Vietnam

South Vietnamese đồng – South Vietnam

Vietnamese đồng – Vietnam

Drachma

Cretan Drachma – Cretan State

Greek Drachma (Δραχμή) – Greece

Dram (Դրամ)

Armenian dram – Armenia

Artsakh dram – Artsakh

Ducat – Two Sicilies

E

Ekwele (Ekuele) – Equatorial Guinea

See also: Scudo (below)

Escudo

Angolan escudo – Angola

Cape Verdean escudo – Cape Verde

Chilean escudo – Chile

Mozambican escudo – Mozambique

Portuguese escudo – Portugal

Portuguese Guinean escudo – Guinea Bissau

Portuguese Indian escudo – Portuguese India

Portuguese Timorese escudo – East Timor

São Tomé and Príncipe escudo – São Tomé and Príncipe

Spanish escudo – Spain

Euro (Eυρώ, Евро) – Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain

Countries that have made legal agreements with the EU to use the euro: Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City

Countries that unilaterally use the euro: Montenegro, Kosovo

Currencies pegged to the euro: Cape Verdean escudo, CFA franc, CFP franc, Comorian franc, Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra.

F

Fanam – Madras Presidency

Florin

Aruban florin – Aruba

Austrian florin – Austria

Austro-Hungarian florin – Austria-Hungary

Dutch florin – Netherlands

East African florin – Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar

Florentine florin – Florence

Hungarian florin – Hungary

Lombardo-Venetian florin – Lombardy–Venetia

Netherlands Antillean florin – Curaçao and Sint Maarten

Polish florin – Poland

Surinamese florin – Suriname

Tuscan florin – Tuscany

Forint – Hungary

Franc

Algerian franc – Algeria

Belgian franc – Belgium

Burundian franc – Burundi

Cambodian franc – Cambodia

Central African CFA franc – Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon

CFP franc – New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna

Comorian franc – Comoros

Congolese franc – Democratic Republic of the Congo (replaced in 1967, re-established in 1998)

Djiboutian franc – Djibouti

French franc – France

French Afars and Issas Franc – French Territory of the Afars and the Issas

French Camerounian franc – French Cameroun

French Equatorial African franc – French Equatorial Africa

French Guianan franc – French Guiana

French Polynesian franc – French Polynesia

French West African franc – French West Africa

Geneva franc – Geneva

Guadeloupe franc – Guadeloupe

Guinean franc – Guinea (replaced in 1971, re-established in 1985)

Katangese franc – Katanga

Luxembourgish franc – Luxembourg

Malagasy franc – Madagascar

Malian franc – Mali

Martinique franc – Martinique

Monégasque franc – Monaco

Moroccan franc – Morocco

New Caledonian franc – New Caledonia

New Hebrides franc – New Hebrides

Réunion franc – Réunion

Rwanda and Burundi franc – Rwanda and Burundi

Rwandan franc – Rwanda

Saar franc – Saar

Saint Pierre and Miquelon franc – Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Swiss franc – Switzerland, Liechtenstein

Togolese franc – Togo

Tunisian franc – Tunisia

US occupation franc – France (issued and used by Allied soldiers, never backed by any government)

West African CFA franc – Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo

Vaud franc – Vaud

Franco

Dominican franco – Dominican Republic

Ticino franco – Ticino

Franga – Albania

Frange – Korçë

Frank

Aargau frank – Aargau

Appenzell frank – Appenzell

Basel frank – Basel

Berne frank – Bern

Fribourg frank – Fribourg

Glarus frank – Glarus

Graubünden frank – Graubünden

Liechtenstein frank – Liechtenstein

Luzern frank – Luzern

Schaffhausen frank – Schaffhausen

Schwyz frank – Schwyz

Solothurn frank – Solothurn

St. Gallen frank – St. Gallen

Thurgau frank – Thurgau

Unterwalden frank – Unterwalden

Uri frank – Uri

Vlorë frank – Vlorë

Westphalian frank – Westphalia

Zürich frank – Zürich

G

Gazeta (Γαζετα) – Septinsular Republic

Genevoise – Geneva

Gineih – Egypt

Gold (ZiG) – Zimbabwe

Gourde – Haiti

Grivna

Ukrainian grivna – Ukraine

Grosz – Kraków

Grzywna

Kraków grzywna – Poland

Guaraní – Paraguay

Guilder

Aruban guilder – Aruba

Guilder – British Guiana

Dutch guilder – Netherlands

Netherlands Antillean guilder – Netherlands Antilles

Surinamese guilder – Suriname

Guinea – United Kingdom

Egyptian guinea – Egypt

Gulden

Austro-Hungarian gulden – Austria-Hungary

Baden gulden – Baden

Bavarian gulden – Bavaria

Danzig gulden – Danzig

Dutch gulden – Netherlands

Fribourg gulden – Fribourg

Luzern gulden – Luzern

Netherlands Antillean gulden – Netherlands Antilles

Netherlands Indian gulden – Netherlands Indies

Neuchâtel gulden – Neuchâtel

Schwyz gulden – Schwyz

South German gulden – Baden, Bavaria, Frankfurt, Hohenzollern, Württemberg and other states

Surinamese gulden – Suriname

West New Guinean gulden – West New Guinea

Württemberg gulden – Württemberg

Caribbean guilder – Curaçao, Sint Maarten

H

Hryvnia (Гривня) – Ukraine

Hwan (圜 or 환) – South Korea

I

Inca – Peru

Inti – Peru

J

Just - Cryptocurrency

K

Karbovanets

Ukrainian karbovanets – Ukraine

Keping

Kelantan keping – Kelantan

Trengganu keping – Trengganu

Kina – Papua New Guinea

Kip – Laos

Kite - Cryptocurrency

Kolion – Russia

Konvertibilna marka (Конвертибилна марка) – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Kori – Kutch

Korona – Hungary

Koruna

Bohemian and Moravian koruna – Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Czech koruna – Czech Republic

Czechoslovak koruna – Czechoslovakia

Slovak koruna – Slovak Republic (1939–1945)

Slovak koruna – Slovakia

Koruuni – Greenland

Króna

Faroese króna – Faroe Islands (not an independent currency, equivalent to Danish krone)

Icelandic króna – Iceland

Krona – Sweden

Krone

Austro-Hungarian krone – Austria-Hungary

Danish krone – Denmark, Greenland

Fiume krone – Free State of Fiume

Liechtenstein krone – Liechtenstein

Norwegian krone – Norway

Yugoslav krone – Yugoslavia

Kronenthaler

Austrian Netherlands kronenthaler – Belgium

Holy Roman Empire kronenthaler – Holy Roman Empire

Kroon – Estonia

Kuna

Kuna – Croatia

Kuna – Independent State of Croatia

Kwacha

Malawian kwacha – Malawi

Zambian kwacha – Zambia

Kwanza – Angola

Kyat () – Myanmar

L

Laari – Maldives

Lari (ლარი) – Georgia

Lats – Latvia

Lek – Albania

Lempira – Honduras

Leone – Sierra Leone

Leu

Moldovan leu – Moldova

Romanian leu – Romania

Lev (Лев) – Bulgaria

Libra – Peru

Lilangeni – Eswatini

Lighter - Cryptocurrency

see also: Livre and pound (below)

Lira

Israeli lira (לירה, pound) – Israel

Italian lira – Italy

Italian East African lira – Italian East Africa

Italian Somaliland lira – Italian Somaliland

Lebanese lira (ليرة) – Lebanon

Luccan lira – Lucca

Maltese lira – Malta

Neapolitan lira – Naples (Kingdom of Joachim Murat)

Ottoman Turkish lira – Ottoman Empire

Papal States lira – Papal States

Parman lira – Parma

Sammarinese lira – San Marino

Sardinian lira – Sardinia

Tripolitanian lira (ليرة) – Tripolitania

Turkish lira – Turkey, Northern Cyprus

Turkish new lira – Turkey, Northern Cyprus

Tuscan lira – Tuscany

Vatican lira – Vatican City

Venetian lira – Venice

Syrian lira – Syria

Litas – Lithuania

Livre

Egyptian livre – Egypt

French colonial livre – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Mauritius and Réunion

French livre – France

Guadeloupe livre – Guadeloupe

Jersey livre – Jersey

Lebanese livre – Lebanon

French livre parisis – France

French livre tournois – France

Haitian livre – Haiti

New France livre – New France

Luxembourgish livre – Luxembourg

Saint Lucia livre – Saint Lucia

Syrian livre – Syria

Ottoman Turkish livre – Ottoman Empire

Loti – Lesotho

Luigino – Principality of Seborga

M

Mahlak – Emirate of Harar

Manat

Azeri manat – Azerbaijan

Turkmenistani manat – Turkmenistan

Maneti – Georgia

Maravedí – Spain

Mark

Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Danzig Mark – Danzig

Estonian mark – Estonia

German mark – Germany

Gold mark – Germany, Kamerun, Togoland

German Papiermark – Germany

German reichsmark – Germany

German rentenmark – Germany

German South-West African Mark – German South-West Africa

East German mark – East Germany

Finnish mark – Finland

Hamburg mark – Hamburg

New Guinean mark – New Guinea

Polish mark – Poland

Saar Mark – Saar

Marka

Bosnia and Herzegovina konvertibilna marka (конвертибилна марка) – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Polish marka – Poland

Markka – Finland

Metica – Mozambique (proposed)

Metical – Mozambique

Mohar – Nepal

Mon

Mon – Japan

Mon – Ryukyu Kingdom

Mun – Korea

N

Nahar – Chechnya (planned and printed but never used)

Naira – Nigeria

Nakfa – Eritrea

New pence – Britain

Ngultrum (དངུལ་ཀྲམ) – Bhutan

Notgeld – German Empire, Weimar Republic

Nouveau zaïre – Zaire

O

Obol – United States of the Ionian Islands

ODE – Digital currencies

Ora – Orania, South Africa

Ostmark

Ostmark – Lithuania

East German mark – East Germany (known as the Ostmark, or "eastern mark")

Ostrubel – Lithuania

Ouguiya (أوقية) – Mauritania

P

Pa'anga – Tonga

Paisa

Bangladeshi Paisa (পয়সা) – Bangladesh

Indian Paisa (पैसा) – India

Nepalese Paisa (पैसा) – Nepal

Pakistani Paisa (پیسہ) – Pakistan

Pataca

Macanese pataca (澳門圓) – Macau

Maltese pataca – Malta

Portuguese Timorese pataca – Portuguese Timor

Pengő – Hungary

Penning

Swedish penning – Sweden

Norwegian penning – Norway

Perper

Serbian perper – Serbia

Montenegrin perper – Montenegro

Perun – Montenegro (proposed)

Peseta

Catalan peseta – Catalunya

Equatorial Guinean peseta – Equatorial Guinea

Peruvian peseta – Peru

Sahrawi peseta – Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Spanish peseta – Spain

Peso

Argentine peso – Argentina

Argentine peso argentino – Argentina

Argentine peso ley – Argentina

Argentine peso moneda corriente – Argentina

Argentine peso moneda nacional – Argentina

Bolivian peso – Bolivia

Chilean peso – Chile

Colombian peso – Colombia

Costa Rican peso – Costa Rica

Cuban convertible peso – Cuba

Cuban peso – Cuba

Dominican peso – Dominican Republic

Ecuadorian peso – Ecuador

Guatemalan peso – Guatemala

Guinea Bissau peso – Guinea Bissau

Honduran peso – Honduras

Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso – Philippines

Malvinas Islands peso – Malvinas Islands (Falkland Islands)

Mexican peso – Mexico

New Granadan peso – Republic of New Granada

Nicaraguan peso – Nicaragua

Paraguayan peso – Paraguay

Philippine peso fuerte – Philippines

Philippine peso – Philippines

Puerto Rican peso – Puerto Rico

Salvadoran peso – El Salvador

Uruguayan peso – Uruguay

Venezuelan peso – Venezuela

Petro – Venezuela

Phoenix – Greece

Piastra

Neapolitan piastra – mainland part of Two Sicilies

Sicilian piastra – Sicily

Piastre

Cochinchina piastre – French Cochinchina

Cypriot piastre – Cyprus

Egyptian piastre – Egypt

Indochinese piastre – Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Jordanian piastre – Jordan

Lebanese piastre – Lebanon

Libyan piastre – Libya

Ottoman Turkish piastre – Ottoman Empire

Sudanese piastre

Syrian piastre – Syria

Turkish piastre – Turkey

Piaster – South Sudan

Piso – Philippines

Pitis – Brunei

Pond

Griqua pond – Griqualand East (Printed but never circulated)

Orange Free State pond – Orange Free State

Pond Vlaams – Burgundian Netherlands

South African Republic pond – Transvaal

Pound

Alderney pound – Alderney (commemorative, not an independent currency)

Anglo-Saxon pound – Anglo-Saxon England

Australian pound – Australia

Bahamian pound – Bahamas

Bermudian pound – Bermuda

Biafran pound – Biafra

British West African pound – Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone

Canadian pound – Canada

Ceylonese pound – British Ceylon

Connecticut pound – Connecticut

Cypriot pound – Cyprus, Akrotiri and Dhekelia

Delaware pound – Delaware

Egyptian pound – Egypt

Falkland Islands pound – Falkland Islands

Fijian pound – Fiji

Flemish pound – Burgundian Netherlands

French colonial pound – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Mauritius and Réunion

French pound – France

Gambian pound – The Gambia

Georgia pound – Georgia

Ghanaian pound – Ghana

Gibraltar pound – Gibraltar

Guadeloupe pound – Guadeloupe

Guernsey pound – Guernsey (not an independent currency)

Haitian pound – Haiti

Irish pound – Ireland

Israeli pound – Israel

Italian pound – Italy

Jersey pound – Jersey (not an independent currency)

Lebanese pound – Lebanon

Lebanese-Syrian pound – Jabal Druze State, Greater Lebanon, Syrian Federation

Libyan pound – Libya

Lombardo-Venetian pound – Lombardy–Venetia

Luccan pound – Lucca

Luxembourgish pound – Luxembourg

Malawian pound – Malawi

Maltese pound – Malta

Manx pound – Isle of Man (not an independent currency)

Maryland pound – Maryland

Massachusetts pound – Massachusetts

Natal pound – Natal

Neapolitan pound – Naples (Kingdom of Joachim Murat)

New Brunswick pound – New Brunswick

Newfoundland pound – Newfoundland

New France pound – New France

New Guinean pound – New Guinea

New Hampshire pound – New Hampshire

New Jersey pound – New Jersey

New South Wales Pound – New South Wales

New York pound – New York

New Zealand pound – New Zealand

Nigerian pound – Nigeria

North Carolina pound – North Carolina

Nova Scotian pound – Nova Scotia

Oceanian pound – Kiribati, Nauru, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu

Orange Free State pound – Orange Free State

Ottoman Turkish pound – Ottoman Empire

Palestine pound – British Mandate of Palestine

Papal pound – Papal states

Parisian pound – France

Parman pound – Parma

Pennsylvania pound – Pennsylvania

Peruvian pound – Peru

Pound sterling – United Kingdom, British Indian Ocean Territory (accepted)

Prince Edward Island pound – Prince Edward Island

Rhode Island pound – Rhode Island

Rhodesia and Nyasaland pound – Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Rhodesian pound – Rhodesia

Saint Helena pound – Saint Helena

Saint Lucia pound – Saint Lucia

Sammarinese pound – San Marino

Sardinian pound – Sardinia

Pound Scots – Kingdom of Scotland

Scottish pound sterling – Scotland (Same currency as Pound sterling but exclusively minted in Scotland)

Solomon Islands pound – Solomon Islands

South African pound – South Africa

South African Republic pound – Transvaal

South Carolina pound – South Carolina

Southern Rhodesian pound – Southern Rhodesia

Sudanese pound – Sudan

South Sudanese pound – South Sudan

South West African pound – South West Africa

Syrian pound – Syria

Van Diemen's Land Pound – Van Diemen's Land

Tongan pound – Tonga

Tours pound – France

Turkish pound – Turkey

Tuscan pound – Tuscany

Vatican pound – Vatican City

Venetian pound – Venice

Virginia pound – Virginia

West African pound – British West Africa

West Indian pound – British West Indies

Western Samoan pound – Samoa

Zambian pound – Zambia

Puffin – Lundy (Unofficial, criminal and privately introduced)

Pūl – Russian Turkestan

Pula – Botswana

Punt – Ireland

Q

Quetzal – Guatemala

R

Rai stones – Yap

Rand – South Africa

Reaal – Curaçao

Real

Angolan real – Angola

Araucanía and Patagonia real – Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia

Argentine real – Argentina

Azorean real – Azores

Brazilian real (old) – Brazil

Brazilian real – Brazil

Cape Verde real – Cape Verde

Central American Republic real – Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

Colombian real – Colombia

Ecuadorian real – Ecuador

Gibraltar real – Gibraltar

Honduran real – Honduras

Mexican real – Mexico

Paraguayan real – Paraguay

Peruvian real – Peru

Philippine real – Philippines

Portuguese Guinea real – Guinea Bissau

Portuguese real – Portugal (plural réis)

Santo Domingo real – Santo Domingo

Salvadoran real – El Salvador

São Tomé and Príncipe real – São Tomé and Príncipe

Spanish colonial real – Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela

Spanish real – Spain

Tucuman real – Republic of Tucumán

Venezuelan real – Venezuela

Reichsmark – Germany

Reichsthaler – Germany

Renminbi (人民币 or 人民幣) – China

Rentenmark – Germany

Rial (ريال)

Moroccan rial – Morocco

North Yemeni rial – North Yemen

Omani rial – Oman

Tunisian rial – Tunisia

Yemeni rial – Yemen

Riel – Cambodia

Riffan – Republic of the Rif

Rigsdaler

Danish West Indies rigsdaler – Danish West Indies

Danish rigsdaler – Denmark

Greenlandic rigsdaler – Greenland

Norwegian rigsdaler – Norway

Riksdaler – Sweden

Rijksdaalder – Netherlands

Ringgit

Malaysian ringgit – Malaysia

Brunei ringgit – Brunei – known in English as the dollar

Rixdollar – Ceylon

Rial – Iran

Riyal (ريال)

Hejazi riyal – Hejaz

Qatari riyal – Qatar

Saudi riyal ( ) – Saudi Arabia

Roepiah – Dutch East Indies

Rouble (Рубль)

Armenian rouble – Armenia

Azerbaijani rouble – Azerbaijan

Belarusian rubel – Belarus

Don ruble – Don Republic

Far Eastern Republic Ruble – Far Eastern Republic

Georgian rouble – Georgia

Kuban ruble – Kuban People's Republic

Latvian rouble – Latvia

Odessa ruble – Odessa Soviet Republic

Russian rouble – Russia

Soviet rouble – Soviet Union

Tajikistani rouble – Tajikistan

Transcaucasian rouble – Transcaucasia

Transnistrian rubla – Transnistria

Rublis – Latvia

Rufiyaa (ދިވެހި ރުފިޔާ) – Maldives

Rupee

Afghan rupee – Afghanistan

Bhutanese rupee – Bhutan

Burmese rupee – Burma

Cocos Rupee – Cocos (Keeling) Islands (privately introduced)

Danish Indian rupee – Danish India

East African rupee – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

French Indian rupee – French India

Gulf rupee – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Emirates

Hyderabad rupee – Hyderabad

Indian rupee (रुपया) – India

Javan rupee – Java

Mauritian rupee – Mauritius

Nepalese rupee (रुपैयाँ) – Nepal

Pakistani rupee (روپیہ) – Pakistan

Portuguese Indian rupia – Portuguese India

Seychellois rupee – Seychelles

Sikkimese rupee – Kingdom of Sikkim

Sri Lankan rupee (රුපියල්, ரூபாய்) – Sri Lanka

Travancore rupee – Travancore

Zanzibari rupee – Zanzibar

Rupiah

Indonesian rupiah – Indonesia

Italian Somaliland rupia – Italian Somaliland

Riau rupiah – Riau

West New Guinea rupiah – West New Guinea

Rupie – German East Africa, Tanganyika

Ryal – Sultanate of Zanzibar

Ryō – Japan

S

Schilling – Austria

Scudo

Bolivian scudo – Bolivia

Lombardy-Venetia scudo – Lombardy-Venetia

Maltese scudo – Malta

Milanese scudo – Milan

Papal States scudo – Papal States

Piedmont scudo – Piedmont and other mainland parts of the Kingdom of Sardinia

Sardinian scudo – Sardinia

Setu (Historically used in Southern India and Sri Lanka)

Shah (Шаг) – Ukraine

Shekel

New Shekel (שקל חדש) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank

Shekel (שקל) – Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank

Shilling

East African shilling – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda

Hudson's Bay Company shilling – Hudson's Bay Company, Red River Colony

Kenyan shilling – Kenya

Limerick Soviet Notes (Shilling) – Limerick Soviet

Puntland shilling – Puntland (Not finalised)

Sun-Cryptocurrency

Somali shilling – Somalia

Somaliland shilling – Somaliland

Tanzanian shilling – Tanzania

Ugandan shilling – Uganda

Skender – Korçë

Sol

Bolivian Sol – Bolivia

Sol – Peru

Sol de oro – Peru

Soum

Kyrgyz som (Сом) – Kyrgyzstan

Uzbek soum (Сўм) – Uzbekistan

Somalo – Italian Somaliland

Somoni (Сомонӣ) – Tajikistan

Speciedaler – Norway

Speciethaler – Schleswig-Holstein

Srang – Tibet

Sterling – United Kingdom

Sucre – Ecuador

Syli – Guinea

T

Tael (兩, liǎng) – China

Taka (টাকা) – Bangladesh

Tala – Samoa

Tallero – Eritrea

Talonas – Lithuania

Tangka – Tibet

Tenga

Bukharan tenga – Bukhara

Kokand tenga – Kokand

Khwarazmi tenga – Khwarazm

Tenge (Теңге) – Kazakhstan

Thaler – Germany, Austria, Hungary

Basel Thaler – Basel

Berne Thaler – Bern

Bremen Thaler – Bremen

Danzig Thaler – Danzig

Geneva thaler – Geneva

Hannovarian Thaler – Hannover

Hesse-Kassel Thaler – Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)

Mecklenburg Thaler – Mecklenburg

Prussian Thaler – Prussia

St. Gallen Thaler – St.

Editorial summary

“List of currencies” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what List, currencies and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1949, 1967, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, currencies and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“List of currencies” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, List, currencies and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q858338. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1949, 1967 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of currencies” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.