Local currencies

currency

currency that can be spent in a particular geographical locality at participating organisations

alternative currency whose unit of account is a measure of time

locally initiated community enterprise that records transactions of members exchanging goods and services

cost associated with owning or holding currency over a given period

medium of exchange complementing national currencies

The stelo ("star"; plural: steloj) was from 1945 to 1993 a monetary unit of Esperantists, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency. Attempts at an earlier currency, the speso, were cut short by the First World War. For a time the Universal League (Esperanto: Universala Ligo), part of the Esperanto movement, issued coupons and coins denominated in steloj, making attempts to link the Stelo to existing currencies on the basis of relative purchasing power in different countries.

defunct corporate scrip sold by The Walt Disney Company

thumb|Silvio Gesell (1862–1930), the founder of Freiwirtschaft and Freigeld

Swiss bank that issues complementary currency funds (WIR franc, WIR euro)

The Chiemgauer is a regional currency in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany. It was created by Christian Gelleri in 2003 and named after the Chiemgau, a region around the Chiemsee lake. Gelleri was inspired by the economist Silvio Gesell. The Chiemgauer is intended to increase local employment, support local culture, promote sustainability, and stimulate the local economy. It is one of the longest sustained and most successful implementations of demurrage currency since 1900.

local currency of Orania, Northern Cape, South Africa

The eusko is a local currency released by the non-profit organization "Eusko Moneta erakundea", and is one of a number of currencies that are active in the Basque Country. It is mainly used in the Northern Basque Country, France, with plans to extend its use to certain areas of Upper Navarre and Gipuzkoa in the Southern Basque Country. The currency was created on 31 January 2013.

ecovillage in Moray, Scotland, UK

currency issued by the Government of the Malaysian state of Kelantan

1991 scrip issued in Sverdlovsk

international Internet trading network

late 18th Century token coinage in the British Isles

non-profit organization and micronation

sectoral currency