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Cent (currency)
Monetary unit in many national currencies (symbol ¢) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals 1⁄100 of the basic monetary unit.
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Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin centum meaning 'hundred'.
The cent sign is commonly a simple minuscule (lower case) letter c. In North America, the c is crossed by a diagonal or vertical stroke (depending on typeface), yielding the character ¢.
The United States one cent coin is generally known by the nickname "penny", alluding to the British coin and unit of that name. Australia ended production of their 1¢ coin in 1992, as did Canada in 2012. Some Eurozone countries ended production of the 1 euro cent coin, most recently Slovakia in 2022.[1]