piastre

• We passed through Selinos, where the riflers of the antique necropolis brought me quantities of glass found in the graves, and a few bronze and gold ornaments; and when I had loaded myself and my attendants with all the glass we could safely carry, the people begged me still to buy, if only for a piastre each piece, what they had accumulated for want of a buyer. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
• In more every-day matters piastre or “francesconi” were the integers used, the latter being only a synonym for the former. —  What I Remember, Volume 2
• It was equivalent to a little less than five dollars, American, in normal times For you, my dear father," said Hamamah grandly Thank you, my loving son," said old Amil Hamamah strolled up the street Old Amil smiled benignly until Hamamah was out of sight Then old Amil spat on the hundred--piastre note. —  136 - The Pharaoh's Ghost
• At current exchange, a piastre was worth about a nickel Pasha Bey stowed the money in his burnoose. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
• He drew out a five-piastre piece, and held it down to the young Arab. —  Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete

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