Pataca
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A pataca is a unit of currency, and an avo is of a pataca. Pataca is the Portuguese
name for peso
. The following articles contain more information (list may not contain all historical patacas):
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
name for peso
Peso
The word peso was the name of a coin that originated in Spain and became of immense importance internationally...
. The following articles contain more information (list may not contain all historical patacas):
- Macanese patacaMacanese patacaThe pataca is the currency of Macau. It is subdivided into 100 avos , with 10 avos called ho in Cantonese. The abbreviation MOP$ is commonly used....
- Maltese patacaMaltese patacaThe pataca of Malta was a large copper coin minted during the 16th century and 17th century as fiduciary coin. This coin was first minted during the reign of Grand Master Fra Jean de la Vallette just after the Siege of Malta 1565. The last minting dates the reign of Grandmaster Fra Jean de...
- Portuguese Timorese patacaPortuguese Timorese patacaThe pataca was a monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor between 1894 and 1958, except for the period 1942-1945, when the occupying Japanese forces introduced the Netherlands Indies gulden and the roepiah...