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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Egypt. It is divided into 100 piastres, or qirsh (قرش [ʔerʃ]; plural قروش [ʔʊˈruːʃ]; abbreviation: PT (short for "piastre tarif")) and was historically...
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  • Piastres affair, also known as Piastres scandal or Piastres trade (French: l'affaire des piastres, le scandale des piastres, or le trafic de piastres)...
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  • 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...
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  • Lebanese piastre – Lebanon Libyan piastre – Libya Ottoman Turkish piastre – Ottoman Empire Sudanese piastre Syrian piastre – Syria Turkish piastre – Turkey...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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