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    cts.
    abbreviation
    centimes.
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    cts
    abbreviation
    cents
Synonyms

cts.

American  

abbreviation

  1. centimes.

  2. cents.

  3. certificates.


cts British  

abbreviation

  1. cents

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Reached the last sand 13 miles from Carson's River, about 10 o'clock, A.M., where we found a water station, and bought some water for our horses at 75 cts. a gallon.

From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

And this, too, when it is understood nearly all the sugar in the Confederacy has been impressed by his agents at from 50 cts. to $1 per pound.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

It costs him 20 cts. per yard to manufacture cotton cloth, including, of course, the cotton, and 75 per ct. will yield, I believe, $500,000 profits, which would be equivalent to 32 cts. per yard.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

Sent on receipt of price, or C. O. D. For 50 cts. extra, with order, I will prepay expressage to any railroad station east of Mississippi River and north of Mason and Dixon's line.

From Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.?No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures by Various

Long stemmed Carnations are to be had in great variety at 75 cts. per dozen; Callas 25 cts. each, and Smilax 50 cts. a string.

From Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888 by Various

An Artist in Crime. 16mo, $1.00; paper 50 cts.

From One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green

Harry Lorrequer, 75 " Horace Templeton, 75 " Tom Burke of Ours, 75 " Jack Hinton, the Guardsman, 75 " Arthur O'Leary, 75 cts.

From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford

Translated by Sergius Kern, M.E. 16mo, paper, 20 cts.

From A System of Easy Lettering by John Howard Cromwell

Joseph Rodman Drake's faery poem, elegantly printed,             50 cts.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

The following are the charges per word in gold: Guatemala to points in the United States 55 cts.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper

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