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The escudo ((:ɨʃˈkudu), ''shield''; sign $;〔Similar to the dollar sign, but with two vertical strokes; also an 'E' with a long middle line and two vertical lines at the end.〕 code: PTE) was the currency of Portugal prior to the introduction of the euro on 1 January 1999 and its removal from circulation on 28 February 2002. The escudo was subdivided into 100 ''centavos''. Amounts in escudos were written as ''escudos'' $ ''centavos'' with the ''cifrão'' as the decimal separator (e.g. ''25$00'' means $25.00, ''100$50'' means $100.50). Because of the conversion rate of 1000 réis = $1, three decimal places were initially used ($1 = 1$000). ==History== The escudo was introduced on 22 May 1911, after the 1910 Republican revolution, to replace the real at the rate of 1,000 ''réis'' to 1 ''escudo''. The term ''mil réis'' (thousand ''réis'') remained a colloquial synonym of ''escudo'' up to the 1990s. One million ''réis'' was called one ''conto de réis'', or simply one ''conto''. This expression passed on to the escudo, meaning 1,000$. The escudo's value was initially set at 675$00 = 1 kg of gold. After 1914, the value of the escudo fell, being fixed in 1928 at 108$25 to the pound. This was altered to 110$00 to the pound in 1931. A new rate of 27$50 escudos to the U.S. dollar was established in 1940, changing to 25$00 in 1940 and 28$75 in 1949. Inflation throughout the 20th century made centavos essentially worthless by its end, with fractional value coins with values such as 0$50 and 2$50 eventually withdrawn from circulation in the 1990s. With the entry of Portugal in the Eurozone, the conversion rate to the euro was set at 200$482 to €1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portuguese escudo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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