Scudo

a silver coin current in Italy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The name means shield, and was derived from the heraldic shield, which it bore, of the prince who issued it. The scudo varied in value from 96 cents to $1.05. In 1859 Pope Pius IX struck a gold scudo worth $1.03. The present Italian coin of value is the lire, worth practically $5.