{{short description|Currency historically used in Portugal and its colonies}} {{about|the coin|the car|Suzuki Escudo}} {{Coin image box 1 double | header = 1 Indian Escudo (1959) | image = File:1 Escudo (1959).jpg | caption_left = '''Obverse''': Lettering "ESTADO·DA·INDIA" [{{translation|State of India}}], face value with the Coat of arms of Portugal in the center. | caption_right = '''Reverse''': Lettering "REPÚBLICA · PORTUGUESA" [{{translation|Portuguese Republic}}], with the year and the Coat of arms of Portugal in the center. | width = 250 | footer = 6,000,000 coins minted. This coin was from Portuguese State of India which lasted till 1961 | position = right | margin = 0 }}
[[Image:Escudo Juana-Carlos I.jpg|right|thumb|Juana and Charles I. 1504–1555. AV Escudo (24 mm, 3.38 g, 9 h). Seville mint.]] right|thumb|Portuguese coin of 1 escudo, 1987 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://colnect.com/en/coins/countries/item_name/escudo |title=World escudo coins on Colnect coin catalog |access-date=22 June 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130624212607/http://colnect.com/de/coins/countries/item_name/escudo |archive-date=24 June 2013 |work=Colnect |url-status=live }}</ref> The original coin was worth 16 silver {{lang|pt|reais}}. The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo was, subdivided into 100 {{lang|pt|centavos}}. Its symbol is the {{lang|pt|Cifrão}}, a letter S with two vertical bars superimposed used between the units and the subdivision (for example, {{Cifrão|25|50}}).
In Spain and its colonies, the ''escudo'' refers to a gold coin worth sixteen ''reales de plata'' or forty ''reales de vellón''.
==Currencies named "escudo"==
===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
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