Contos may refer to:
Currency
*Conto, the unofficial multiple of the
Portuguese escudo
The Portuguese escudo was the currency of Portugal from May 22nd 1911 until the introduction of the euro on January 1st 2002. The escudo was subdivided into 100 . The word derives from the scutum shield.
Amounts in escudos were written as w ...
: 1 conto meant 1,000$00, 2 contos meant 2,000$00 and so on.
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Contos de réis, one million réis (or one thousand mil-réis, written 1.000$000) of the
Portuguese real
The ''real'' (, meaning "royal", plural: ''réis'' or rchaic''reais'') was the unit of currency of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire from around 1430 until 1911. It replaced the '' dinheiro'' at the rate of 1 real = 840 dinheiros and was itself ...
Arts
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''Contos'' (Eça de Queiroz), a collection of short stories by the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1902, two years after his death.
People
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Contos (surname)
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