Escudo

The escudo (Portuguese: 'shield') is a unit of currency which is used in Cape Verde, and which has been used by Portugal, Spain and their colonies. The original coin was worth 16 silver reais. 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, ).

In Spain and its colonies, the escudo refers to a gold coin worth sixteen reales de plata or forty reales de vellón.

Circulating

 * Cape Verdean escudo

Obsolete

 * Angolan escudo
 * Chilean escudo
 * French écu
 * Mozambican escudo
 * Portuguese escudo
 * Portuguese Guinean escudo
 * Portuguese Indian escudo
 * Portuguese Timorese escudo
 * São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
 * Spanish escudo