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Portuguese Guinean escudo; São Tomé and Príncipe escudo; Of the above, only Cape Verde continues to use the escudo. In Macau, the currency during the colonial period was, as it is today, the Macanese pataca. Timor-Leste adopted the Portuguese Timorese escudo whilst still a Portuguese colony, having earlier used the Portuguese Timor pataca.
The cifrão was formerly used by the Portuguese escudo (ISO: PTE) before its replacement by the euro and by the Portuguese Timor escudo (ISO: TPE) before its replacement by the Indonesian rupiah and the US dollar. [28] In Portuguese and Cape Verdean usage, the cifrão is placed as a decimal point between the escudo and centavo values. [29]
The modern dollar and peso symbols originated from the mark employed to denote the Spanish dollar, [2] whereas the pound and lira symbols evolved from the letter L (written until the seventeenth century in blackletter type as ) standing for libra, a Roman pound of silver.
The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo was, subdivided into 100 centavos. Its symbol is the Cifrão, a letter S with two vertical bars superimposed used between the units and the subdivision (for example, 25 50). In Spain and its colonies, the escudo refers to a gold coin worth sixteen reales de plata or forty reales de vellón.
Dollar – Rhodesia; Dinar – Sudan; Ekwele (Ekuele) – Equatorial Guinea; Escudo. Angolan escudo; Mozambican escudo; Portuguese Guinean escudo; São Tomé and Príncipe escudo; Florin – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda; Franc. Algerian franc; French Camerounian franc; Moroccan franc; Malagasy franc; Malian franc; Katanga Cross – Zaire ...
In 1935, when Hong Kong and China abandoned the silver standard, the Hong Kong unit was pegged to sterling at a rate of 1 shilling and 3 pence, while the Macau pataca was pegged to the Portuguese escudo at a rate of MOP 1 = Esc 5$50. This meant that the Macau pataca was worth only 1 shilling and was therefore at a discount of 3 pence in ...
When the pataca was reintroduced in 1945, it was pegged to the Portuguese escudo at a rate of 5.5 escudos = 1 pataca (changed to 5 escudos = 1 pataca in 1949) and fractional coins denominated in avos (100 avos = 1 pataca) were issued for the first time. In 1951, minting of avo coins ceased, even though in 1952 a full set of pataca coinage ...
The escudo was the currency of Portuguese Timor between 1959 and 1976. It replaced the pataca at a rate of 5.6 escudos = 1 pataca and was equivalent to the Portuguese escudo. It was replaced by the Indonesian rupiah at an unknown exchange rate following East Timor's occupation by Indonesia. The escudo was subdivided into 100 centavos.