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Portugal banknotes
Portugal paper money catalog and Portuguese currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Mil Reis = 1.000 Reis, till 1910
  • Escudo = ( Mil Reis ) = 100 Centavos, 1910-2001
  • Euro = (200.48 Escudos) = 100 Cents, from 2002

• From 2002 European Union banknotes are used, see:
  • European Union

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Pick #	Date
		Kingdom, till 1910
19A-31	1826	1.200, 1.200, 2.400, 2.400, 2.400, 5.000, 5.000, 5.000, 6.400, 10.000, 12.800, 20.000, 20.000 Reis
32-47	1828	1.200, 1.200, 2.400, 2.400, 2.400, 5.000, 5.000, 10.000, 10.000, 10.000, 12.800, 20.000, 20.000, 20.000 Reis
63-71	1890-1	200, 500, 500 Reis, 1, 2.5, 5, 5, 5, 20 Mil Reis
72-8	1893-9	500 Reis, 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 Mil Reis
79-82	1901-3	2.5, 5, 10, 20 Mil Reis
83-5	1903-5	5, 20, 50 Mil Reis
86-90	1891	50, 50, 100, 100, 100 Reis
		Republic, from 1910
93-96	1917	10, 10, 10, 10 centavos
97-100	1918-22	5, 5, 5, 20 centavos
101-2	1925	10, 20 centavos
105-111	(1917)	500 reis, 1, 2.50, 10, 20, 50, 100 mil reis
112-16	design 1913-18	50 centavos, 1, 5, 20, 100 escudos
117-18	design 1919	10, 20 escudos
119-26	design 1920	2.50, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 1.000, 1.000 escudos
127-31	design 1922	2.50, 50, 500, 500, 1.000 escudos
132-39	design 1924-25	5, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
140-42	design 1927-28	100, 500, 1.000 escudos
143-45	design 1929	20, 50, 1.000 escudos
146-48	design 1932	50, 500, 1.000 escudos
149-52	design 1935-38	50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
153-56	design 1941-42	20, 50, 500, 1.000 escudos
158-61	design 1944-57	50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
162-66	design 1958-61	20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
167-71	design 1964-66	20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 escudos
172	design 1967	1.000 escudos
173-75	design 1968-71	20, 50, 1.000 escudos
176-8, 182	design 1978-80	20, 100, 500, 5.000 escudos
179-86	design 1983-91	100, 500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 escudos
187-91	design 1995-	500, 1.000, 2.000, 5.000, 10.000 escudos