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(numismatics,historical) a medieval Portuguese silver coinage, briefly also minted in Galicia during the reign of king Fernando I of Portugal when locally recognized as king
1371, A. López Carreira (ed.), Documentos do arquivo da catedral de Ourense (1289-1399), doc. 381:
ouvo en estas viñas triinta e seys çestos de huvas e de conposta. Et que custara o carreto tres barbudas cada çesto, que montaron çento e oyto barbudas, que montaron en crusados mill e seysçentos e viinte crusados.
there were in this vineyard thirty-six baskets of grapes and compote. And that the carriage costed three barbudas each basket, amounting to a hundred and eight barbudas, which amounted to one thousand and six hundred and twenty cruzados.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “barbuda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG