Centavo
The centavo is a fractional monetary unit that represents one hundredth of a basic monetary unit in many countries around the world. The term comes from Latin centum, with the added suffix -avo.
Coins of various denominations of centavos have been made from copper, stainless steel, aluminum-bronze, and silver.
Circulating
Places that currently use the centavo include:- Argentine peso
- Bolivian boliviano
- Brazilian real
- Cape Verdean escudo
- Colombian peso
- Cuban peso
- Dominican peso
- East Timorese centavo coins
- Ecuadorian centavo coins
- Guatemalan quetzal
- Honduran lempira
- Macanese avos
- Mexican peso
- Mozambican metical
- Nicaraguan córdoba
- Philippine peso
Obsolete
Former forms of the centavo that are no longer in use include:- Brazilian cruzeiro
- Brazilian cruzado
- Brazilian cruzado novo
- Costa Rican colón
- Ecuadorian sucre
- Salvadoran colón
- Guinea Bissau peso
- Mozambican escudo
- Portuguese escudo
- Portuguese Guinean escudo
- Portuguese Indian escudo
- Puerto Rican peso
- São Tomé and Príncipe escudo
- Venezuelan venezolano
- Venezuelan peso
- Chilean Cent