Demonetized Currencies List | Dead Currencies & Currency Risk Tracker
Search 611 dead currencies by code, country, lifespan, demonetized year, and cause of replacement.
A searchable Newhedge table of dead currencies, redenominations, replacements, hyperinflation collapses, source links, and live currency watch signals.
Request format
curl -X GET "https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/demonetized-currencies/METRIC_NAME?api_token=YOUR_TOKEN"api_token (required) — 24 character token.
resolution (optional) — 1d only for the metrics on this chart. A finer value is refused, never served as 1d: 401 when the token is not entitled to finer buckets, 400 when it is entitled and the metric does not ingest that bucket; see Resolutions.
before (optional) — exclusive cursor, returns observations older than this timestamp_ms. Works on every resolution.
limit (optional) — the most recent N observations, maximum 5000. Finer resolutions page by default (2500); a 1d request returns the whole series unless you send limit or before.
before and limit narrow a time series. A response with no single time axis, such as a hash keyed by venue or a labelled snapshot table, has nothing to cut on. It is returned whole, and both parameters are ignored rather than rejected.
A before that is not a positive epoch-millisecond timestamp is a 400. It is the one paging value we reject rather than ignore, because a page size has a sensible default and a cursor does not.
include (optional) — definition wraps the response as {"definition": …, "data": …} and returns the record shown under each metric; see Definitions. Any other value is a 400.
:metric_name — one of the metric names listed below.
200 with JSON payload, 400 for an unknown include value, 401 for missing/invalid token, 404 for missing resources. A 404 for a metric withdrawn on purpose adds withdrawn, withdrawn_on and reason, for example {"error":"Metric not found","withdrawn":true,"withdrawn_on":"2026-09-07","reason":"The venue's public feed reports insurance-fund settlements, not liquidation orders."}; a removed chart can add successor.
Plan and quota refusals keep these statuses and error texts and add code, required_plan, current_plan, feature, upgrade_url, limit and resets_at where they apply. A Pro token whose history window removed points also gets the X-Newhedge-History-Truncated headers, and for a Pro token X-Newhedge-Available-From is the start of the window. See Errors and plan limits.
Metrics
Each metric is fetched independently. Responses are trimmed samples to show structure.
Demonetized currencies datasetdemonetized_currencies
Data used by the Demonetized Currencies chart.
Resolutions: 1d only.
https://newhedge.io/api/v2/metrics/demonetized-currencies/demonetized_currencies?api_token=YOUR_TOKENReplace `YOUR_TOKEN` with your API token.
{
"currency_watch": [
{
"risk": "High",
"signal": "RBZ has had to reaffirm ZiG legal-tender status after the 2024 transition from ZWL.",
"status": "New currency under pressure",
"source_url": "https://www.rbz.co.zw/documents/public_notice/Public_Notice_-_ZiG_Legal_Status.pdf",
"source_name": "Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe",
"country_code": "ZW",
"country_name": "Zimbabwe",
"currency_code": "ZWG",
"currency_name": "Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG)"
},
{
"risk": "Medium",
"signal": "The central bank has publicly warned against contracts and payments being executed in foreign currency instead of SSP.",
"status": "Domestic currency substitution risk",
"source_url": "https://boss.gov.ss/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/SSP-as-legal-tender-for-2023.2-version.pdf",
"source_name": "Bank of South Sudan",
"country_code": "SS",
"country_name": "South Sudan",
"currency_code": "SSP",
"currency_name": "South Sudanese Pound"
},
{
"risk": "Medium",
"signal": "ECOWAS still targets an ECO common currency, though launch timing has repeatedly slipped.",
"status": "Single-currency roadmap",
"source_url": "https://ecowas.int/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Vision2050_EN_Web.pdf",
"source_name": "ECOWAS Vision 2050",
"country_code": null,
"country_name": "West Africa",
"currency_code": "XOF / ECOWAS",
"currency_name": "West African CFA franc and ECOWAS currencies"
}
],
"region_options": [
"South Asia",
"Southeast Asia",
"West Africa"
],
"category_options": [
"Other",
"State change",
"War / conquest"
]
}