- 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".It is a fractional monetary unit, used to represent one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world, including:
Circulating
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Argentine peso
*Bolivian boliviano
*Brazilian real
*Cape Verdean escudo
*Chilean peso
*Colombian 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, although "sentimo" (céntimo) is used in Filipino.)Obsolete
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Costa Rican colón (Between 1917 and 1920 only. Ascéntimo 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 theeuro was introduced)
*Portuguese Guinean escudo
*Portuguese Indian escudo
*Puerto Rican peso
*São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
*Venezuelan venezolano
*Venezuelan peso
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