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The céntimo was a currency unit of Spain and other countries which were historically influenced by Spain or Portugal (written as cêntimo). The word derived from the Latin Centum meaning "hundred". The main Spanish currency (pre-euro) was the peseta which was divided into 100 céntimos.

Céntimo is one hundredth of the following basic monetary units:

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Angolan kwanza (spelled as cêntimo with a circumflex)
Costa Rican colón (but as centavo between 1917 and 1920)
Paraguayan guaraní
Peruvian nuevo sol
Philippine peso (In historical usage and in Filipino, but centavo is used in English)
Venezuelan bolívar
São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (as cêntimo)

In Spanish, céntimo is the common way of describing the euro cent.

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Mozambican metica (never issued)
Spanish peseta

Cent derivatives

cent · centas · centavo · céntimo · centime · centesimo · qindarkë · sen · sent · stotinka

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