Escudo
Image:Escudo Juana-Carlos I.jpg|right|thumb|Juana and Charles I. 1504–1555. AV Escudo. Seville mint.
[Image:PRT002.JPG|right|thumb|Portuguese coin of 1 escudo, 1987]
The escudo is a unit of currency which is used in Cape Verde, and which has been used by Portugal, Spain and their colonies. The original coin was worth 16 silver Portuguese real. The Cape Verdean escudo is, and the Portuguese escudo was, subdivided into 100 centavos. Its symbol is the Cifrão, a letter S with two vertical bars superimposed used between the units and the subdivision.
In Spain and its colonies, the escudo refers to a gold coin worth sixteen reales de plata or forty reales de vellón.