I was so glad even of a make-believe fire that I dropped a copper coin beside it, and the mother smiled pensively as if grateful but not very hopeful from this beneficence, though after reflection I had made my gift a "big dog" instead of a "small dog," as the Spanish call a ten and a five centimo piece.
"Familiar Spanish Travels"
W. D. Howells
Hast thou one centimo for change, brother mine?
"Spanish Highways and Byways"
Katharine Lee Bates