currency is the Portuguese Escudo.
to the ISO 4217 standard, the code was "PTE".
The symbol of the former Portuguese currency was the cifrão .
cifrão was placed between Escudos and centavos like on the
image below that shows the 2,5 Escudos or 2 Escudos and 50 centavos.
Since 2002, the Escudo was definitely replaced by the Euro.
The permanent conversion rate between Escudos and Euro, defined on the
31th December 1998, was the following:
1 Euro equals 200,482 Escudos (the comma divides the Escudos from the Centavos).
(Note that the coin shown above
was no longer in circulation when the
At the time of the introduction of Euro there were 7 different coins in
See the Portuguese Former Coins here.
- 1 escudo
- 5 escudos
- 10 escudos
- 20 escudos
- 50 escudos
- 100 escudos
- 200 escudos
There were also 5 different Banknotes in circulation:
See the Portuguese Former Banknotes here.
- 500 escudos
- 1.000 escudos
- 2.000 escudos
- 5.000 escudos
- 10.000 escudos
Actual Currency - The Euro
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