Centavo

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50 Philippine centavos (1964).

10 Philippine centavos (1945)

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".

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