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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Cambodian riel (section French Indochinese piastre)
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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Kuruş (redirect from Ottoman Turkish Piastres)
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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