Produced centesimo patterns
Formerly used the centesimo
Currently uses the centesimo
The centesimo, alternately spelled as centésimo in Spanish-speaking countries, is a currency unit initially used by the states of Italy prior to its unification, and then by unified Italy and its colonies, as well as a handful of Latin American nations. The word is derived from the Latin centesimus, meaning "hundredth". The centesimo has been typically used as the subunit of a variety of decimal currencies, having a value equal to 1/100 of a unit.
Currencies using the centesimo[]
Current[]
- Euro (as a common way of referring to the euro cent by Italian speakers)
- Panamanian balboa
- Seborga luigino
- Swiss franc (by Italian speakers only)
- Uruguayan peso
Former[]
- Chilean peso (no longer uses the centesimo)
- Dominican franco
- Emilian lira
- Eritrean tallero
- Italian lira
- Italian Republic lira
- Italian Somaliland somalo
- Lombardy-Venetia pound
- Luccan franc
- Napoleonic lira
- Palmanova siege coins (25 and 50 centesimi)
- Papal lira
- Paraguayan peso
- Parman lira
- Sammarinese lira
- Sardinian lira
- Sierra Leonean leone (trial strikes)
- Tuscan florin
- Vatican lira
- Venetian lira
