pataca

noun

The basic unit of currency in Macau.

noun

A Portuguese silver coin formerly struck for currency in Brazil; a dollar, or piece of eight. Also patacoon.

noun

A Portuguese coin of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, equal to 320 reis.

noun

A Portuguese coin of Mozambique, equal to 6 crusados.

noun

A silver coin of Macao and Timor, equivalent to 100 avos or 41.63 cents.

noun

A copper coin of Portugal, equal to 2 cuartos.

noun

The Spanish dollar; — called also patacoon.

noun

The monetary unit of Macau, equal to 100 avos.

noun

A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in Malta in the form of a large copper coin.

noun

A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958.