Thailand {baht}.
gold coin {bezant}.
Gold, silver, platinum, or palladium bars or ingots {bullion} are not coins or jewelry.
Canada {Canadian dollar}.
Greece {drachma}.
Italy {lira}.
Sumerian, Babylonian, Greek, and Hebrew talents equaled 60 mina units {mina}. One mina equaled 60 shekels.
Mexico and other Latin American countries {peso}.
Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria fractional unit {piastre}. Spain and Rome used piastres.
Brazil {real, money}. Eight Spain reales equaled one piece of eight, until 1859.
China {renminbi}.
Russia {ruble}.
India {rupee}.
Indonesia {rupiah}.
Israel {shekel}.
Middle East silver weight {talent} was approximately 30 kilograms. An Attic talent equaled 6000 drachmas. Sumerian, Babylonian, Greek, and Hebrew talents equaled 60 mina.
Japan {yen}.
Germany/Switzerland {mark, money}. One German mark equaled 100 pfennig, until 2002.
Germany {pfennig}. One mark equaled 100 pfennig, until 2002.
Spain and Spanish America gold coin {doubloon}. One doubloon equaled two escudos or 32 reales, until 1859.
Spanish coins {piece of eight} {peso de a ocho} {Spanish dollar} were worth eight reales, until 1859.
Spain {peseta}. Spain used peseta from 1869 until 2002.
England {farthing}. One farthing equaled one-quarter pence, until 1960.
England {ha'penny} {halfpenny}. One halfpenny equaled one-half pence, until 1969.
England {pence}. Twelve pence equaled one shilling, until 1971.
England {shilling, money}. Twenty shillings equaled one pound, until 1971. One shilling equaled twelve pence.
England {crown, money}. One crown equaled five shillings, until 1965.
England {pound, money} {pound sterling} {quid}. One pound note [1816] equaled twenty shillings, until 1971, and now equals 100 pence.
England {sovereign, coin}. One sovereign is a 22-carat gold coin with nominal value of one pound, first minted in 1489 for Henry VII but put into circulation in 1817.
England {guinea, money}. One guinea equaled one pound and one shilling, from 1813 until 1971. From 1683 to 1813, English gold guinea coins were equal one pound sterling.
France {franc}. One franc equals 100 centimes.
France small coin {sou} {sol, coin} {solidus, coin} equaled five centimes.
one quarter USA {two bits}.
one dollar USA {simolean}.
10 dollars USA {sawbuck}.
private paper money {shinplaster}.
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