Centavo

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

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

[edit] Circulating

• Argentine peso
• Bolivian boliviano
• Brazilian real
• Cape Verdean escudo
• Chilean peso
• Colombian peso
• Dominican peso
• East Timor centavo coins
• Guatemalan quetzal
• Honduran lempira
• Mexican peso
• Mozambican metical
• Nicaraguan córdoba
• Philippine peso (before 1967. Afterwards, peso and centavo are renamed piso and sentimo using Filipino spelling.)

[edit] Obsolete

• Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. As céntimo for other periods.)
• Ecuadorian sucre (New centavo coins continued to circulates after sucre was replaced by U.S. dollar in 2000.)
• Salvadoran colón
• Guinea Bissau peso
• Mozambican escudo
• Portuguese escudo (Before the euro was introduced)
• São Tomé and Príncipe escudo

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