The phrase "ancient currency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to forms of money that were used in historical contexts or civilizations.
Example: "The museum's exhibit featured various artifacts, including ancient currency from the Roman Empire."
Alternatives: "historical money" or "old currency".
The Dutch exchanged their ancient currency, the guilder, for the euro with scarcely a murmur of protest.
The typical buyer was a poor farmer in south India, for whom gold was an ancient currency and collateral to borrow against in bad times.
Bottles of whisky will be handed over and a few lumps of coal; shortbread too: these being the ancient currency of a Scottish Ne'erday.
While the market for payments services is very crowded indeed, YapStone (the name is based on an ancient currency from the island of Yap, the company says) has differentiated itself by creating payment flows and options specific to the marketplaces that it targets.
Hirst has imagined the fabled shield of Achilles, lost for millennia, and invented a whole sequence of ancient currencies.
I have known organizations which have used phrases like "Pran Jaaye per dhammidee na jaaye" ( Let life go but not a cent, (Dhammidee is an ancient Indian currency)) but the organization has submerged into oblivion and the stakeholder hands have changed.
A "drachma" is an ancient Greek currency unit and translates as a "handful", which is a lot less than what Greece will need to pay off all its debts.
Her public poetry contains the latent power that will ignite a new dimension of dialogue in the Arab and wider Muslim world, a power derived of an ancient cultural currency.
They are a near-constant presence, crawling around the shadows of alleys and squares in a city where poverty and wealth butt heads on nearly every street corner: shiny new office blocks sit beside ancient shacks, currency traders have set up open-air stands where they display piles of cash, Hyundais brush past donkeys down the city's sole paved street.
In Patras, in the Peloponnese, a network called Ovolos, named after an ancient Greek means of currency, was founded in 2009 and includes a local exchange currency, a barter system and a so-called time bank, in which members swap services like medical care and language classes.
By the 1980s, as the New Age fascination with ancient symbols gained wide currency, Mr. Argüelles had found his calling.
