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:
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.)
Obsolete
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- 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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