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AUREVIA
An atlas of money through time
Every coin has ancestors.
Follow 45 real currencies across five thousand years, from silver weighed in Mesopotamia to the euro. See where they were struck, trace their family tree and drag through the centuries.
45Real currencies
47Documented links
8Regions
8Eras
5,000Years of money
How it works
Four lenses on the same history
Pick up a coin and carry it between them. The map, the dossier, the family tree and the timeline all follow you.
Atlas
Pick a region and a period. The coins that were in use appear where they were issued.
Origins
Open any currency's dossier: who issued it, how it looked, its story, its reforms and its sources. Tap the coin to turn it over.
Lineage
See every reform, split and union as a living tree. Tap a coin to light its whole line.
Timeline
Drag through five thousand years. The map, the coins and the other lenses follow the year.
Why Aurevia
A cabinet of real money, drawn and documented
45
Real currencies
From silver weighed in Mesopotamia to the euro, across eight regions: from the Mediterranean and East Asia to the Americas.
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Documented relations
Replacements, reforms, splits, unions, continuations, models and names. Every link is dated and explained.
Drawn by the app
Coins and notes are engraved from each card: form, metal, inscriptions and signs, simplified into emblems. Turn any coin over.
Sources on every card
Dates and reforms follow standard reference works, and every currency lists what it relies on, so you can read further.
Offline and private
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. What you explore is saved in one file on your device and never leaves it.
From Newcomer to Master of the Mint
Track the currencies you explore, the lineages you trace and the eras you visit. Choose any coin of the atlas as your avatar.
Showcase
From weighed silver to the pound in your pocket
Money in Aurevia is a family. Follow a coin back to the silver its ancestors were weighed in, one documented link at a time.
Solid lines are direct descent
Dashed lines are a borrowed model, name or idea
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3rd millennium BC · Ur and Babylon
Mesopotamian shekel
Before coins, money was silver weighed on a balance.
- Led to · c. 630 BC
Stamped coins took over the job of silver weighed out at every deal.
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c. 630 BC · Sardis
Lydian stater
Among the first coins ever struck.
- Led to · 6th century BC
Coinage spread from Lydia to the Greek cities of Ionia and then to mainland Greece.
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c. 510 BC · Athens
Athenian drachma
The owl of Athens, trusted from Sicily to Persia.
- Led to · 3rd century BC
Rome's first silver coins followed Greek models before the denarius.
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c. 211 BC · Rome
Roman denarius
Rome's silver workhorse for nearly five centuries.
- Gave its name to · c. 755
The Frankish denier took its Latin name, denarius, from the Roman coin.
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c. 755 · Aachen
Carolingian denier
Twelve pence to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound.
- Model for · late 8th century
English silver pennies followed the Frankish denier, and 240 of them made a pound.
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Anglo-Saxon era to today · London
Pound sterling
The oldest currency still in use.
The timeline
Five thousand years, eight eras
Drag the year and every lens follows. Each era keeps its own colour, from violet weighed silver to azure floating money.
Weighed Silver
Before coins, silver changed hands by weight.
First Coins
Stamped metal appears in Lydia, Greece, India and China.
Classical Empires
Rome and Han China run money across whole continents.
Medieval Money
Dinars, deniers, florins and the first paper notes.
Age of Silver
Thalers and pieces of eight circle the globe.
Revolutions and Gold
Decimal systems, new nations and the gold standard.
Wars and Paper
Hyperinflation, splits and a dollar tied to gold.
Floating Money
Free exchange rates, unions and new national currencies.
The cabinet
Forty-five currencies in one drawer
Coins and notes are drawn by the app, not photographed. Ancient and medieval dates are often approximate and marked with c.
Contact
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A date that needs a source, a currency you would like to see in the atlas, or a bug to report. Every message is read.
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