piaster
noun
Meaning
- The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound
- A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
- A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.
- A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.
- A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, Turkey and Cyprus
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