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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;A.J., post: 1467644, member: 35316&quot;]The proper monetary designation of a French Indochina hundredth-piastre is a &quot;centime.&quot;&nbsp; Thus this coin is 5 cetimes.&nbsp; Centieme is the fraction, centime is the unit.</p><p><br /></p><p>Krause is apparently incorrect here, as is the wikipedia aritcle on the subject, which also lists the denomination as &quot;cent.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Strictly speaking, these are not variant spellings, these are variant unit appellations.&nbsp; &quot;Centavo&quot; means hundredth, whereas centimo is a Spanish equivalent of the French &quot;centime.&quot;&nbsp; Centesimo is Italian for &quot;hundredth.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>So in Mexico the unit is actually called &quot;hundredth,&quot; in Spanish currency it was a hundredth of a peseta was called a &quot;centimo,&quot; un centavo de peseta = un centimo.</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically, we&#039;re dealing with two different words here that you would never mix up in English, i.e. &quot;cent&quot; and &quot;hundredth.&quot;&nbsp; In French they are centime and centieme, respectively, and in Spanish they are centimo and centavo, respectively.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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