Cent (unit of currency)

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The cent is a unit of money in a large number of countries, always signifying one hundrednth of the basic monetary unit. The word cent is derived from the Latin centum, meaning "hundredth".

The cent is a subunit, equal to 1/100 of the primary unit, of the following monetary units:

One-cent coin from United States of America PD Image
Front side of Euro cent. Appearance of back side is up to the EU member that minted the coin

* Australian dollar
* Bahamian dollar
* Barbados dollar
* Belizean dollar
* Bermudan dollar
* Bruneian dollar
* Canadian dollar
* Cayman Islands dollar
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands dollar
* Cook Islands dollar
* Cypriot pound
* East Caribbean States dollar
* Eritrean nakfa
* European Union euro (adopted by 17 of the EU member nations)
* Fijian dollar
* Guyanese dollar
* Hong Kong dollar
* Principality of Hutt River dollar
* Jamaican dollar
* Kenyan shilling
* Kiribati dollar
* Liberian dollar
* Maltese pound
* Mauritian rupee
* Namibian dollar
* New Zealand dollar
* Pitcairn Islands dollar
* South African rand
* Seychelles rupee
* Singaporean dollar
* Sierra Leone leone
* Solomon Islands dollar
* Somaliland shilling
* Sri Lankan rupee
* Surinam dollar
* Swaziland lilangeni
* New Taiwan dollar
* Tanzanian shilling
* Trinidad and Tobago dollar
* Tuvaluan dollar
* Ugandan shilling
* United States dollar
* Zimbabwean dollar

The following obsolete currencies have also had a subdivision named the cent. In all cases, the cent was 1/100 of the primary unit.

* British Caribbean Territories (Eastern Group) dollar
* British Guiana dollar
* British Honduras dollar
* British North Borneo dollar
* Chatham Islands dollar
* Cingalese rupee
* Cocos (Keeling) Islands rupee
* East African and Ugandan rupee
* East African florin
* East African shilling
* Malayan dollar
* Malayan and British Borneo dollar
* Mauritian dollar
* New Brunswick dollar
* Newfoundland dollar
* Nova Scotian dollar
* Penang dollar
* Prince Edward Island dollar
* Rhodesian dollar
* Sarawak dollar
* Sealand dollar
* Sierra Leoneian dollar
* Straits Settlements dollar
* Zanzibari rupee

## In other languages[edit]

Currencies used primarily in non-English-speaking countries often have similar names derived from centum; these include the French centime and the centavo, used in several Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, and the cêntimo in Portugal.

centime | centavo

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* Algerian dinar
* Burundian franc
* CFP franc
* CFA franc
* Comorian franc
* Congolese franc
* Djiboutian franc
* Ethiopian birr (as santim)
* Guinean franc
* Haitian gourde
* Latvian lats (Latvian: santīms)
* Moroccan dirham
* Rwandan franc
* Swiss franc (by French speakers only)

* Argentine peso
* Bolivian boliviano
* Brazilian real
* Cape Verdean escudo
* Chilean peso
* Colombian peso
* Dominican peso
* Guatemalan quetzal
* Honduran lempira
* Mexican peso
* Mozambican metical
* Nicaraguan córdoba