The piastre or piaster (English: /piˈæstər/) is any of a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for "thin metal plate". The...

The piastre de commerce ("trade piastre") was the currency of French Indochina between 1885 and 1954. It was subdivided into 100 cents, each of 2~6 sapèques...

The piastre (Egyptian: ersh, قرش) was the currency of Egypt until 1834. It was subdivided into 40 para, each of 3 akçe. The piastre was based on the Turkish...

Egypt. It is divided into 100 piastres, or qirsh (قرش [ʔerʃ]; plural قروش [ʔʊˈruːʃ]; abbreviation: PT (short for "piastre tarif")), or 1,000 milliemes...

Piastres affair, also known as Piastres scandal or Piastres trade (French: l'affaire des piastres, le scandale des piastres, or le trafic de piastres)...

into 100 centimes. It replaced the tical and was replaced by the piastre. The piastre was introduced in French Indochina in 1885 at par with the Spanish-American...

listed separately. One jiao equals ten fen. One piastre equals ten fulūs and one dirham equals 10 piastres. Four currencies circulate in the partially recognized...

Lebanese piastre – Lebanon Libyan piastre – Libya Ottoman Turkish piastre – Ottoman Empire Sudanese piastre Syrian piastre – Syria Turkish piastre – Turkey...

1885, the Cochinchina piastre was the currency of the French colony of Cochinchina. It was replaced by the French Indochinese piastre after the creation...

the Latin alphabet. In European languages, the kuruş was known as the piastre. Today the kuruş (pl. kuruşlar) is a Turkish currency subunit, with one...

reintroduced in 1955, replacing the French Indochinese piastre at par. The kip (also called a piastre in French) was sub-divided into 100 att (Lao: ອັດ) or...

Ottoman lira replaced the piastre (Turkish: kuruş) as the principal unit of currency in the Ottoman Empire, with the piastre continuing to circulate as...

The Decaen piastre was a coin that Governor Decaen had minted at Île of France in 1810. He entrusted the coining to the artist "sieur Aveline", who designed...

alongside the piastre (equal to the Mexican peso) with 1 piastre = 5.37 francs. It replaced the tical and was replaced by the piastre. No paper money...

pound sterling, and replaced Turkish currency at a rate of £C 1 to 180 piastres. The Cypriot pound was initially divided into 20 shillings (σελίνι / σελίνια...

The đồng (銅), also called the piastre, was the currency of South Vietnam from 1953 to 2 May 1978. It was subdivided into 100 xu, also written su. In 1953...

the currency of the Republic of the Sudan. The pound is divided into 100 piastres (or qirsh (قرش) in Arabic). It is issued by the Central Bank of Sudan....

1683 5,200,000 km2 (2,000,000 sq mi) 1913 2,550,000 km2 (980,000 sq mi) Population • 1912 24,000,000 Currency Akçe, sultani, para, kuruş (piastre), lira...

an exchange rate to the still circulating piastre and South Vietnamese đồng of 32 northern đồng = 1 piastre or southern đồng. In 1956, the đồng was pegged...

The rial (French: rial sebili) or piastre was the currency of Tunisia until 1891. It was subdivided into 16 kharub (caroub), each of 13 fals (burbe)....

South Vietnam, having replaced the previously used French Indochinese piastre. Formerly, it was subdivided into 10 hao (hào), which were further subdivided...

of 180 bronze British piastres. Having deliberately avoided introducing shillings and pence, the new 9 piastre and 18 piastre coins did however correspond...

500 piastre promissory note issued and hand-signed by Gen. Gordon during the Siege of Khartoum (1884) payable six months from the date of issue....

A piastre from the Holy Year 1675, issued under Clement X, mint of Rome, Papal States...

is nominally divided into 100 piastres (قرش qirsh, plural قروش qurūsh in Arabic, abbreviated to p.), although piastre coins are no longer issued. [citation...

Population • 1920 3,800,000 Currency Vietnamese văn (1862–1945) Cochinchina piastre (1878–1885) French Indochinese piastre (1885–1949) Today part of Vietnam...

gordos" (also known in English as "hard" pieces of eight, and in French as "piastres fortes espagnoles") in which colonial-era contracts within the Spanish...

colère : To be angry Mo chagren : I'm sorry Une sucette : A pacifier Une piastre : A dollar Un caleçon : Boxers cher (e is pronounced like a in apple) :...

Hejaz riyal The Qatari riyal The Saudi riyal A popular nickname for the 20-piastre Egyptian coin A popular nickname for the 5-santimat Moroccan coin Alriyal...

proportional, are payable to the state by mine-owners. The fixed rent is 10 piastres per jerib (about 10,000 square metres), to be paid whether the mine is...