AVO: COIN OF EAST TIMOR
50 avos, 1948: Portuguese Timor
COLONIA DE TIMOR - 50 AVOS: Colony of Timor - 50 avos.
Olive Sprigs.
REPUBLICA PORTUGUESA: Portuguese Republic.
Coat of arms of Portugal on a stylized Maltese cross.
Mintage: 500.000.
- Silver (0.650): 20 mm - 3.5 g
- Reference price: 13$
COIN AVO — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- PORTUGUESE TIMOR (1945-1951): avo = 1/100 pataca
- PORTUGUESE MACAU + MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (1952-...): avo = 1/100 pataca
The name of the avo coin comes from the Portuguese term "Oitavo", which means "eighth". The fact is that avo is a subsidiary coin of pataca.
Mexican peso, which was widespread in the world some centuries ago, and which consisted of exactly 8 reals, in ancient times in Southeast Asia was called the pataca. There is a certain analogy, the heredity of real and avo.
