The escudo is the name of the national currency of several States, whose majority are old Portuguese colonies . Its name means ecu and recalls that the first parts carried the representation of the ecu of the sovereigns.

This page returns to the following homonymous monetary units:

Current monetary units

• the Escudo course-verdien, Escudo caboverdiano (Cape Verde);

the escudo is inter alia the name of the current currency of the Cape Verde, the Escudo course-verdien (CVE), which is bound by a fixed rate to the Euro.

Obsolete monetary units

• the Portuguese Escudo, Escudo português , used until the introduction of the Euro;
• the Angolan Escudo, Escudo angolano (Angola) replaced by Kwanza after independence
• the Escudo of Guinea-Bissau, Escudo da Guiné-Bissau (Guinea-Bissau) replaced by CFA franc in 1985
• the Mozambican Escudo, Escudo of Moçambique (Mozambique) replaced by the métical after independence
• the Chilean Escudo, Escudo chileno (escudo Chile in) replaced by the peso after the economic crisis
• the Escudo santoméen (São Divide into volumes-and-Principle), replaced by will dobra in 1977

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