The escudo (gold) was again introduced on 22 May 1911, after the 1910 Republican revolution, to replace the real at the rate of 1,000 "réis" to 1 "escudo". The term "mil réis" (thousand "réis") remained a colloquial synonym of "escudo" up to the 1990s. One million "réis" was called one "conto de réis", or simply one "conto". This expression passed on to the escudo, meaning 1,000$.