Pataca

A pataca (or patacão) is a unit of currency, and an avo is $1/100$ of a pataca. Pataca is the Portuguese name for peso, the word itself is first attested in 1548 as a gold coin worth a cruzado. The following articles contain more information (list may not contain all historical patacas):


 * Macanese pataca
 * Maltese pataca
 * Portuguese Timorese pataca