centimes

Stainless steel 1 and 5 centimes, aluminium-bronze 10, 20, and 50 centimes, nickel 1 franc and silver 5 francs were introduced.

A cup of express at the counter cost 45 centimes and you left five centimes, about a penny, and the barman would flip it into the pot for sharing out.

The krone, at 25 Swiss centimes the previous Christmas, was now quoted at one-twelfth of a centime.

In other words, a €1 injection of government money into the economy would only have a net benefit of 50 centimes.

There is one close to me that started charging 12 centimes for slicing the bread.

After an initial high cost of 40 centimes / kWh it settles down to slightly above 10 centimes / kWh in around 1984 and then stays flat until 2000, where the graph ends.

Switzerland seems to have this figured out as the smallest coin is 5 centimes.

In France, before the Euro, things would be priced at 99 centimes, but the smallest coin was a 3 centime coin (worth about half a cent).

In Europe, a frozen pepperoni pizza might cost you 3,78 EUR and the vegetarian will cost you 12 centimes less because the retailer passes on their differing costs.

> and the tweezers I was amused to see a huge pile of extra tweezers in a knife display the other day (50 centimes each).

Here are my two centimes from France where education is (comparatively to the US) free (Something like a three hundred euros fees per year whose two thirds are a participation to be covered by health insurance (student health insurance is notorously inefficient btw)).

** My formation in French cuisine was in the mid-60's, when we ate in middling restaurants at the beginning of the month and smoked Gauloises, and then graded down toward mid-month to places like Roger la Frite, which means roger the French-fried potato, or Jean-dans-le Passage where a principal plate was 90 centimes, or about twenty cents at the time, cockroaches included.

France has responded by calling Euro cents "centimes".

"the wine was 15 centimes; the verses worthless"

In 1954, copper-nickel 100 francs were introduced.[citation needed] > In the 1960s, 1 and 2 (old) franc aluminium coins were still circulating, used as "centimes".[citation needed] New franc > In 1960, the new franc (nouveau franc) was introduced,[29] worth 100 old francs.