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Pyaster vs Piastre - What's the difference?

pyaster | piastre | Alternative forms |

Pyaster is an alternative form of piastre.


As nouns the difference between pyaster and piastre

is that pyaster is while piastre is a spanish or spanish-american coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.

pyaster

English

Noun

(en noun)

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    piastre

    English

    (wikipedia piastre)

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (US) * pyaster

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
  • * 1630 , John Smith, True Travels , in Kupperman 1988, p. 39:
    • The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters , Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull [...].
  • A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria.

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