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Vendors have recently taken to marketing them as match-day scarves, while in Spanish they are labeled, more lyrically, bufandas con los dos escudos, or scarves with two shields.

From New York Times • May 4, 2015

Nobody wants their 10,000-euro nest egg to be suddenly turned into 10,000 much-less-valuable new escudos.

From Slate • May 17, 2012

Owing euros to depositors, and getting devalued drachmas, or lira, or escudos or pesetas from borrowers is one way to make capital vanish.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2011

As a result the official exchange rate has jumped from 12.5 to 42 escudos to the dollar while the black-market rate has risen from about 28 to 175.

From Time Magazine Archive

To each company is given 30 escudos per month over the regular pay.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander