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. — Cross of the Order of Christ as the supporter of the Portuguese Coat of arms in the badge of the Order of the Colonial Empire (a colonial order of knighthood, to reward services by soldiers and civilians in the Portuguese colonies in Asia and Africa).
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.
