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Centavo

Centavo is a Spanish and Portuguese word, derived from the Latin centum, meaning "one hundred", and the suffix -avo, meaning "portion" or "fraction". Centavo means, strictly, "one-hundredth".

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It is a fractional monetary unit, used to represent one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world, including:

Circulating

  • Argentine peso
  • Bolivian boliviano
  • Brazilian real
  • Cape Verdean escudo
  • Chilean peso (until 1984)
  • Colombian peso
  • Cuban peso
  • Dominican peso
  • East Timor centavo coins
  • Ecuadorian centavo coins
  • Guatemalan quetzal
  • Honduran lempira
  • Mexican peso
  • Mozambican metical
  • Nicaraguan córdoba
  • Philippine peso (In English usage; séntimo or céntimo is used in Tagalog and Spanish respectively.)

    • Obsolete

  • Brazilian cruzeiro (from 1942 to 1986 and from 1990 to 1993)
  • Brazilian cruzado (from 1986 to 1989)
  • Brazilian cruzado novo (from 1989 to 1990)
  • Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As céntimo for other periods.)
  • Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulate after the sucre was replaced by U.S. dollar in 2000.)
  • Salvadoran colón
  • Guinea Bissau peso
  • Mozambican escudo
  • Portuguese escudo (Before the euro was introduced)
  • Portuguese Guinean escudo
  • Portuguese Indian escudo
  • Puerto Rican peso
  • São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
  • Venezuelan venezolano
  • Venezuelan peso

    • References

    Centavo Wikipedia
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