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Latest revision as of 06:01, 26 July 2024
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:
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Front side of Euro cent. Appearance of back side is up to the EU member that minted the coin
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
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.
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