Portuguese escudo

The Portuguese escudo was the currency of Portugal prior to the introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999 and the removal of the escudo from circulation on 28 February 2002.  The escudo was subdivided into 100 . The word  derives from the scutum shield.

Amounts in escudos were written as    with the  as the decimal separator (for example:  means ,  means ). Because of the conversion rate of 1000  = , three decimal places were initially used ( = ).

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