Good old days! I just gave all the old coins to my boy to play with. Seems like they're relics from a troubled past. On the other hand, some of the ones replaced by the euro might be returning...
groentje wrote:Don't exist anymore:
BEF (native) and LUF (only the coins)
FRF
NLG
DEM
ITL
Still in use:
EUR (of course)
GBP (only the English version)
SEK
DKK
CHF
In my modest coin collection I also have
USD
PLZ
USSR Rouble
Czechoslowak Crown
Chinese RMB
An update might be called for.
As stated above, I used RON for the first time, this year, in the previous years I had PLN, Turkish Lira, Croatian Kuna, NOK and Lithuanian Litas (which doesn't exist anymore).
Some pre-euro currencies:
- Belgian Franc (BEF)
- Luxembourgish Franc (LUF)
- French Franc (FRF)
- Dutch Guilder (NLG)
- Deutsche Mark (DEM)
- Italian Lira (ITL)
- Lithuanian Litas (LTL)
Still in use:
- Euro (EUR)
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Pound Sterling (GBP)
- Danish Krone (DKK)
- Swedish Krona (SEK)
- Czech Koruna (CZK)
- Polish Złoty (PLN)
- Croatian Kuna (HRK)
- Hungarian Forint (HUF)
This is interesting topic. Trying to remember currencies have used... didn't find my coin collection to help, so I may update this later:
Trying to make this in chronological order (maybe not accurate)...
Finland / markka
Sweden / krone
Spain / peseta
Estonia / krooni
Poland / zloty
Czech / koruna
Slovak / korun?
Denmark / krone
Germany / mark
Usa / dollar
Austria / schilling
Slovenia / tolari
Croatia / kuna
Italy / lire
Netherlands / guilder
U.K. / pound (England and Scotland)
France / franc
Belgium / ?
Latvia / lati
Lithuania / liti
Switzerland / franc
Norway / krone
Hungary / forint
Greece / drachma
Euro
U.K. / pound (Gibraltar)
Russia / ruble
Morocco / dirham
27 (+2 u.k. pounds) different currencies so far... and I should have some coins or notes of earlier versions of Finnish marks, Polish zloty and Russian rubles (got from parents or other family from the time I didn't exists yet, maybe some collector value available from those)... somewhere...
I've been to other countries, most of them I didn't use cash. I am not entirely sure whether or not I actually used these currencies:
AED/Dirham
LUF/Franc †
MCF/Franc †
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Lithuanian litas (LTL)
our Euro (EUR)
Polish zloty (PLN)
Latvian lats (LVL)
Russian ruble (RUB)
Czech krone (CZK)
Belarusian ruble (BYR) - actually very funny currency with 200000 rouble notes, sadly it will be denominated by 10000 in the upcoming summer.
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Spanish peseta
Moroccan dirham
UK pound (including Scottish banknotes)
Gibraltar pound
US Dollar (also in )
Irish pound
Mexican peso
Paraguayan guaraní
Brazilian real
Costa Rican colón
Danish crown
Swedish crown
Slovak crown
Swiss franc
Peruvian nuevo sol
Chilean peso
Slovenian tolar
Croatian kuna
Latvian lats
Estonian crown
Russian ruble
Belarusian ruble
Lithuanian litas
Polish złoty
Czech crown
Egyptian pound
Dominican peso
Indian rupee
Turkish lira (also in Northern Cyprus)
Syrian pound
Lebanese pound
Jordanian dinar
Israeli shekel
West African CFA franc (, )
Gambian dalasi
Mauritanian ouguiya
Japanese yen
Kazakh tenge
Kyrgyz som
Tajik somoni
Uzbek som
Chinese yuan
Hong Kong dollar
Macanese pataca
Thai bath
Cambodian riel
Vietnamese dong
Lao kip
South African rand
Lesotho loti
Mozambican metical
Swazi lilangeni
Macedonian dinar
Albanian lek
Iranian rial
Bolivian boliviano
Colombian peso
Werner Hartmann wrote:1968 - 2001: German Mark (West)
1977 + 1991: Swiss Francs (Switzerland + Liechtenstein)
1979: Italian Lira
1981: Australian Dollars
1985: Austrian Shilling
1991: Yugoslavian Dinar
1991 + 1998: Danish Krones
1991: Swedish Krones
1992: Finnish Markka
1993: Latvias Rublis + LATS (two currencies in Latvia!)
1993: Estonian Krones
1993 + 2000: French Francs
1994 + 2008: Pound Sterling
1995: Russian Rubels
1996: Irish Punt
1997: Canadian Dollars
1997 + 2001: US-Dollars
1998: Iceland-Krones
1999: Japanes Yen
1999: New Taiwan Dollars
2000: South African Rand (South Africa + Swaziland)
2000: Mauritius Rupiah
2001: New Zealand Dollars
2002 until today: Euro
2002: Sao Tomé & Príncipe Dobras
2003: Czech Krones
2003: Polish Zloty
2004: New Pesos Uruguayos
2004: Argentinian Pesos
2004: Chile Pesos
2005: Costa Rica Colon
2005: Nicaragua Cordoba Oro
2006: New Turkish Lira
2007: Hungarian Forint
2007: Bosnia & Hercegovina Konvertible Mark
2008: Qatar Riyal
2008: UAE Dirhams
2008: Bahrain Dinar
2009: Korean Won (South Korea)
2009: Chinise Renmimbi Yuan
These are 40 - if we count Latvian Rublis and LATS as one currency - or 41 different currencies - if we count the two currencies in Latvia.
update:
2012: Macedonian Dinar
2012: Albanian Leke
2013: Israel New Shekel
2014: East Carribean Dollars (Commonwealth of Dominica)
2014: Armenian Dram (Armenia + de facto Nagorno-Karabakh)
2015: Norwegian Krones
2015: Moldovan Lei
Now 47 or 48 different currencies.
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Pre-euro, all no longer existing:
NLG, Dutch Guilder
DEM, Deutsche Mark
ITL, Italian Lire
Introduce the Euro here, all still existing:
EUR, Euro
DKK, Danish Crown
USD, United States Dollar
GBP, British Pound
SEK, Swedish Crown
NOK, Norwegian Crown
As said before, I also have a couple of Korean Won coins and also a 10 Thai Baht coin (which can be confused with €2).
My NIG stats have finally disappeared. My EBTST stats are still available.