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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John the Jute, post: 597305, member: 17740&quot;]Thanks for that.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;m wondering whether I may have answered the question myself.&nbsp; Because the language round the rim of the coin is most certainly not Spanish--I can&#039;t think what came over me--it is Latin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So perhaps the denomination is in Latin too ... and the S is an abbreviation of &quot;scutum&quot;, the Latin word for a shield, from which the Spanish and Portuguese word &quot;escudo&quot; comes?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Does that sound convincing?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>John[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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