Centime is French for "cent", and is used in English as the name of the fraction currency in several Francophone countries (including Switzerland and formerly France), where it is one hundredth of a franc. A two cent euro coin A US penny In currency, the cent is a monetary unit that equals th of the basic unit of value. ... A Francophone is a person who speaks French natively or by adoption (i. ... A country, a land, is a geographical area that connotes an independent political entity, with its own government, administration, laws, often a constitution, police, military, tax rules, and population, who are one anothers countrymen. ...

In France a five-centime coin was known as a sou, i.e. a solidus or shilling. A solidus (the Latin word for solid) was originally a gold coin issued by the Romans. ... The shilling (or informally: bob) was a British coin first issued in 1548 for Henry VIII, although arguably the testoon issued about 1487 for Henry VII was the first shilling. ...

In France centime is now used to refer to one hundredth of a euro, though this is officially supposed to be called "cent" in all languages. The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain, collectively known as the Eurozone. ...

However, in Latvia coin is called also the centime (latvian: santīms)