The following represented the major currency of the region, during their respective time periods: * Florins in Renaissance Italy. * Akçe in the 16th century Ottoman Empire. * Reales during the Golden Age of Piracy in the West Indies. * Pounds sterling in Colonial America. People also paid with Spanish, French, and Portuguese coins, wampum, or colony-specific bills, but it was simplified to just pounds sterling in the Animus 3.0 and Helix. * Écu in Colonial Louisiana. * Livres in Paris, France, before and after the French Revolution. * Pounds sterling in London, Great Britain, during the Victorian era.