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

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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.