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Partial List of Defunct Currencies—Paper and Coin

Drachma, Seleucid coinage, antoninianus, as, denarius, dupondius, Roman provincial coins, sesterce, solidus, Aksumite currency, Achaemenid currency.

Africa: dollar—Rhodesia; escudo—Mozambique, São Tomé, and Príncipe; ekwele (ekuele)—Equatorial Guinea; —Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda; franc—French Cameroon, Morocco, and Malagasy; metical—Mozambique; peseta—Equatorial Guinea; peso—Guinea Bissau; pound— Biafra, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Libya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Zambia; rial— Morocco; rupee—Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda; shilling—Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda; syli—Guinea; zaire—Zaire.

Asia: customs gold unit—China; dollar—Mongolia; South Vietnamese đông—South Vietnam; Elymais—Iran; Timor escudo—East Timor; hwan—Korea; mohar—Nepal; pound—Israel, Jordan, and Palestine; ruble—Tajikistan; rupee—Bahrain, Burma, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and U.A.E.; tael—China.

Australasia: pound—Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga.

Latin America: austral—Argentina; cruzeiro, cruzado— Brazil; escudo—Chile; inti—Peru; peso—Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Paraguay; scudo— Bolivia; sucre—Ecuador.

Caribbean: pound—Bahamas, Bermuda, and Jamaica.

Europe: 15 national currencies that were replaced by the euro in 2002 daler: rigsdaler—Denmark and Norway; rijkdaalder—Netherlands; riksdaler—Sweden; speciedaler—Norway; dinar—Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...