Medieval currencies

thumb|Nations in red currently use the dirham. Nations in green use a currency with a subdivision named dirham. The dirham, dirhem or drahm is a unit of currency and of mass. It is the name of the currencies of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Armenia, and is the name of a currency subdivision in Jordan, Libya, Qatar and Tajikistan. It was historically a silver coin.

former currency of France

thumb|Austrian gold ducat depicting Kaiser Franz Joseph I of Austria|Franz-Josef, The ducat ( ) coin was used as a trade coin in Europe from the later Middle Ages to the 19th century. Its most familiar version, the gold ducat or sequin containing around of 98.6% fine gold, originated in Venice in 1284 and gained wide international acceptance over the centuries. Similarly named silver ducatons also existed. The gold ducat circulated along with the Florentine florin and preceded the modern British pound sterling.

The akçe or akça (anglicized as akche, akcheh or aqcha; ; , , in Europe known as asper) was a silver coin mainly known for being the chief monetary unit of the Ottoman Empire. It was also used in other states including the Anatolian Beyliks, the Aq Qoyunlu, and the Crimean Khanate. The basic meaning of the word is "silver" or "silver money", deriving from the Turkish word () and the diminutive suffix .

thumb|upright=1.4|Barile (large groschen), Florence, 1506

thumb|right|Reverse of an Italian florin coin

thumb|The first écu, issued by Louis IX of France, in 1266. The term écu () may refer to one of several French coins. The first écu was a gold coin (the ''écu d'or) minted during the reign of Louis IX of France, in 1266. The value of the écu varied considerably over time, and silver coins (known as écu d'argent'') were also introduced.

originally a German coin later used elsewhere in Central Europe

currency of Kingdom of France and its predecessor state of West Francia from 781 to 1794

The maravedí () or maravedi (), deriving from the Almoravid dinar (), was the name of various Iberian coins of gold and then silver between the 11th and 14th centuries, and the name of different Iberian accounting units between the 11th and 19th centuries.

type of currency

unit of currency in the Kingdom of Scotland

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medieval coin

Chinese currency unit used on cash coins in imperial and early republican China

thumb|200px|Bernese batzen (15th century) thumb|40-Batzen Thaler, Vaud, 1812 thumb|Bern: 5 Batzen 1826, concordat type thumb|Freiburg im Üechtland|Freiburg (Freyburg): 1 Batzen 1830 The batzen is a historical Swiss, south German, and Austrian coin. It was first produced in Bern, Switzerland, from 1492 and remained in use there until the mid-19th century.

style of former Chinese coins minted with central holes for transport on ropes and cords

thumb|Round grivna (about ) thumb|Triangular Novgorod grivnas excavated near Koporye thumb|100px|Kievan rhombic grivna thumb|A hoard of rhombic Kievan grivnas at Moscow State Historical Museum

thumb|Yuan dynasty banknote (2 Chinese cash (currency unit)|guàn) with its printing plate (1287)

thumb|right|Example of a Neapolitan augustale, showing a Roman Emperor An augustalis or augustale, also agostaro, was a gold coin minted in the Kingdom of Sicily beginning in 1229 or in 1231 according to others.

one of the first forms of paper money

thumb|A mancus of king Ethelred the Unready|Æthelred II, 1003–1006.

alt=|thumb|Genovino of the year 1252. The genovino was a gold coin used in the Republic of Genoa from 1252 to 1415.

medieval silver Venetian coin

currency used in Japan until 1870

currency used in Joseon

right|220px|thumb|Gran dobla or dobla de a diez of Pedro I of Castile, minted in [[Seville in 1360 (Madrid).]]

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medieval French coin

Medieval Polish coins

The Agontano was the currency used by the Italian Maritime Republic of Ancona from the 12th to the 16th centuries during its golden age. It was a large silver coin of 18-22mm in diameter and a weight of 2.04-2.42 grams, of roughly equivalent value to the Milanese Soldo.

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Currency of Portugal from c. late 12th century until c. 1502

Baltic region commodity money

historical measure of weight, mainly for silver, and unit of exchange

The gigliato, also gillat or carlino, was a coin of pure silver established in 1303 by Charles II of Anjou in Naples, and then also in Provence from 1330. Its name derives from the Lilies ("giglio") depicted on the reverse entwined around a cross. The coin weighed 4 grams. This type of coin was widely copied in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially by the Turks, such as the Emir of Saruhan.

coinage used by the Visigoth people

historical coinage of China

currency of the Republic of Genoa from 1138 to 1797

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Old currency of Vietnam.

thumb|Cornado minted in Toledo, Spain|Toledo during the reign of [[Sancho IV of Castile (1284–1295)]] thumb|Kingdom of Navarre|Navarran cornado minted in 1757, during the reign of Ferdinand VI Cornado is the common name of several Castilian coins made of copper or billon (an alloy of silver and copper), minted from the time of Sancho IV of Castile (13th century) until that of the Catholic Monarchs (16th century).

banknote of the Chinese Southern Song Dynasty

The manghir (; ; ) was an Ottoman copper coin introduced first during the reign of sultan Murad I ().

coins produced by the Republic of Venice

160px|thumb|Artiluc Artiluc (, ) was a silver coin forged and used in the 17th century in the Republic of Ragusa that had its capital city in Dubrovnik, modern-day Croatia.

thumb|A silver Maltese oncia from 1741–73 In southern Italy, the oncia (plural oncie or once) or onza (pl. onze) was a unit of account during the Middle Ages and later a gold coin minted between 1732 and 1860. It was also minted in the southern Italian territories of the Spanish Empire, and a silver coin of the same value was minted by the Knights of Malta. The name is derived from the ancient Roman uncia. It is sometimes translated as ounce.

paper negotiable instrument in China

medieval Bulgarian Coinage, Second Bulgarian Empire

Frizatik was a silver currency minted in the town of Friesach in Carinthia since early 12th until mid-14th century. It was primarily coined by the Archbishops of Salzburg.

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currency used in Goryeo

silver coins minted in the Khazar Khaganate and other Turkic polities in medieval Eurasia

one of several historical units of currency used in Asia

thumb|Coin of Andrew II of Hungary, or [[Béla IV of Hungary.]] Banovac, banski denar or banica is a coin struck and used in the Kingdom of Croatia between 1235 and 1384, replacing the Croatian frizatik (which was also minted by Duke of Slavonia). The Latin name '''' was derived from the words ban ("viceroy") and denarius''.