MONEY EPOCH · CURRENCIES
Currencies
Current and historical currencies.
Brazilian real
The currency of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
0 recordsIndian rupee
The official currency of India.
0 recordsJapanese yen
The official currency of Japan.
0 recordsPound sterling
The currency of the United Kingdom.
0 recordsRenminbi (Chinese yuan)
The currency of the People's Republic of China.
0 recordsRussian ruble
The current currency of the Russian Federation.
0 recordsSingapore dollar
The official currency of Singapore.
0 recordsSouth Korean won
The currency of the Republic of Korea.
0 recordsThai baht
The official currency of Thailand.
2 recordsUnited States dollar
The currency of the United States and the world's primary reserve currency.
0 recordsBronze tool-shaped money
Spade- and knife-shaped bronze currency issued independently by Zhou-era states.
0 recordsCeltic currency of Britain
Gold and silver coinage produced by Celtic tribes in southern Britain before the Roman conquest.
0 recordsChinese cash coin (round coin, square hole)
The standard imperial Chinese coin lineage spanning over 2,000 years.
0 recordsColonial bills of credit
Paper notes issued by individual colonial legislatures when coin was scarce.
0 recordsColonial real and mil-réis
Brazil's longest-lasting currency.
0 recordsConfederate States dollar
The currency of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
0 recordsContinental currency
Currency issued by the Continental Congress to fund the American Revolutionary War.
0 recordsCowrie shell money
China's earliest known medium of exchange, from the Shang dynasty.
0 recordsCruzado (1986-1989)
Part of the 1986 Plano Cruzado stabilization plan.
0 recordsCruzado novo (1989-1990)
A 1989 reform cutting 3 zeros from the old cruzado.
0 recordsCruzeiro (first, 1942-1967)
Replaced the mil-réis in 1942.
0 recordsCruzeiro (third, 1990-1993)
Part of the 1990 Plano Collor.
0 recordsCruzeiro novo (1967-1986)
A 1967 reform cutting 3 zeros from the old cruzeiro.
0 recordsCruzeiro real (1993-1994)
The final step before the 1994 Plano Real.
0 recordsDigital ruble
A digital form of the ruble, not a separate new currency.
0 recordsEarly Russian kopek
A principal silver denomination after sixteenth-century reform.
0 recordsFabi (Chinese National Currency)
The unified national currency the Nationalist government introduced in place of the silver standard in 1935.
0 recordsGold Yuan
The Nationalist government's last-ditch attempt to control inflation.
0 recordsGoryeo coinage (tongbo/jungbo)
Korea's first officially issued coinage.
0 recordsHwan
A wartime currency reform to control Korean War-era inflation.
0 recordsImperial Russian ruble
The principal currency unit of the Russian Empire.
0 recordsJapanese mon
Copper cash denomination used from the earliest Japanese coinage through the Edo period.
0 recordsJapanese ryō (gold)
The gold-standard currency unit of the Tokugawa shogunate.
0 recordsJiaochao (Yuan fiat paper currency)
The world's first fiat paper currency, issued by the Yuan dynasty.
0 recordsJiaozi/Huizi paper money
The world's first officially issued paper currency, from the Song government in 1024.
0 recordsKarshapana (punch-marked coin)
The earliest known silver coinage of the Indian subcontinent.
0 recordsKorean Empire won
The modern reformed currency of the Korean Empire.
0 recordsKorean yang
A modern transitional currency unit of the Korean Empire.
0 recordsKorean yen
The currency of Korea under Japanese colonial rule.
0 recordsMalaya and British Borneo dollar
The shared currency of Malaya, Singapore and the British Borneo territories.
0 recordsMalayan dollar
The shared currency of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements.
0 recordsPost-Mauryan gold coinage
Gold coinage of the Indo-Greek, Kushan and Gupta dynasties.
0 recordsRoman currency in Britain
Currency of the Roman Empire used officially in the province of Britannia.
0 recordsRus grivna silver ingot
A family of silver weight units and ingots used in Rus trade.
0 recordsRussian assignation ruble
Russia's early paper-money form.
0 recordsRussian denga
A small silver coin of medieval Russian polities.
0 recordsRussian ruble (pre-1998)
The Russian Federation ruble before the 1998 redenomination.
0 recordsSangpyeong Tongbo
The principal currency standard of late Joseon.
0 recordsSilver tael (sycee)
The silver weight unit that became the principal Ming-Qing currency.
0 recordsSilver tanka
The standard coin of the Delhi Sultanate.
0 recordsSouth Korean won (1945-1953)
The transitional won of the post-liberation and Korean War period.
0 recordsSoviet chervonets
A monetary unit that stabilized Soviet money after the Civil War.
0 recordsSoviet ruble
The main currency of the USSR.
0 recordsSpanish colonial dollar (piece of eight)
A Spanish imperial silver coin that circulated as the primary exchange medium in colonial America.
0 recordsSpanish/Mexican silver dollar
The trade silver coin declared Singapore's official currency in 1823.
0 recordsStraits Settlements dollar
The official currency of the Straits Settlements under its currency board from 1897.
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