‘Peças’

  Pieces

These are authentic coins ornamented with a showy contour in which some fasteners are inserted in order to hold the coin without damaging its currency/numismatic value. The most commonly used were the ‘cavalinhos’ (=small horse) pounds and ‘Caras de Mulher’

(=woman’s face – Queen Victoria), because the ‘Caras de Homem’ (man’s face – King George V) were not very appreciated by the women from Minho – coins of five and ten thousand ‘réis’ (5 thousand ‘reís’ = 0,025 €).