Money That Is No Longer Used
16 country histories of money
There are four patterns for when a currency ceases to serve its role. The market refuses to accept it, it is abolished by decree, it becomes void after defeat in war, and it falls out of use even though no one has forbidden it. By comparing the ways they disappear, we can see what has broken down in that society.
- 1806–1813 A Channel port The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
- 221 BC Xianyang, capital of Qin: the government offices China
- July 672 The Fuwa Road, Mino Province Japan
- 8th century BC – c. 600 BC (disputed) Altar of Hera Greece
- the 12th–13th centuries The market square of a territory Germany
- 1344 The London mint Britain
- August 1585 Antwerp Netherlands
- 1585–1589 The mouth of the Scheldt Netherlands
- the 15th–17th centuries Face values that survive only in ledgers China
- 1663 Moscow Russia
- 1668–1670 Kameido village, Edo Japan
- 1727 Yekaterinburg Russia
- 1806–1814 A port under the Continental Blockade France
- 1806–1810 The court of the Kingdom of Holland Netherlands
- 1845 Saint Petersburg Russia
- the beginning of the 19th century The high road to Lisbon Portugal
- 1893 New York, the financial district United States
- 1913–1916 Various factions Mexico
- 1918– Petrograd Russia
- February 1919 Czechoslovakia Austria
- 1921 Moscow Russia
- 1925–2002 Vienna Austria
- 1933–1935 The Supreme Court United States
- 1936 The peninsula torn in two Spain
- 1939 The peninsula after the war Spain
- September 1945 A liberated town, the ration counter Netherlands
- 1945 A bank counter, the autumn of declarations Netherlands
- December 1947 Various places Russia
- 1948 The border with the Soviet occupation zone Germany
- 1948–1949 Berlin under blockade Germany
- 1948–1949 Berlin, the border between east and west Germany
- February 15, 1953 Provisional Capital South Korea
- 1953 At the bank counter South Korea
- 1953–1954 Ministry of Finance Greece
- 1961–1962 Government Office South Korea
- 1962–1990 1990 India
- June 10, 1962 Seoul South Korea
- 1962 The Exchange Counter South Korea
- 1993 Mexico City Mexico
- 1993 Moscow Russia
- 2000s– National Assembly South Korea