Portuguese EscudoLisbon former currency is the Portuguese Escudo. Accordingly to the ISO 4217 standard, the code was "PTE". The symbol of the former Portuguese currency was the cifrão  . The 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 Euro appeared.) At the time of the introduction of Euro there were 7 different coins in circulation:
There were also 5 different Banknotes in circulation:
See also:Portugal Actual Currency - The EuroTop of Page
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