A piaster is a silver coin of various countries, here representing about a dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools] Reference

A piaster was a lowdenomination Egyptian coin vaguely equivalent in value to an American penny.    From Wordnik.com.  [From This Beloved Hour]

Here is a piaster for you for having thought of it. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference

Esne every one receives one piaster from the mosque, at parting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

"A piaster for your thoughts," he said, bringing her back from her reverie.    From Wordnik.com.  [From This Beloved Hour]

It was entirely surrounded by a low piaster wall with yew hedges on the inner side of the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rude Awakening]

Obsessed with discovering the tomb, Komotsos would save every piaster he earned and, when not waiting tables, go off and dig holes everywhere he could in the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elusive Tomb of Alexander] Reference

They brought to the King the piaster which gave Erec great relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference

I gave him only two francs-not a fraction of a Turkish piaster more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine)] Reference

I gave her a double piaster, and asked for its value in blue glass armlets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gypsies] Reference

We got a donkey each and rode around the, the price of the ride was 1 piaster each.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArchivesBlogs] Reference

With every piaster that I spend, I think about how she would do the same or otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travel Tales in the Promised Land (Palestine)] Reference

Meaning of word "pepsi" is p = pay e = every p = piaster s = saving i = israel? en Español.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

I-- we -- I and my men -- we steal a cartridge sooner than a piaster -- a rifle sooner than a thousand roubles!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference

The Jordanian Engineers Association is inviting you to help the people in Gaza through your financial donations, every piaster matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwaider Planet] Reference

There, a brokerage charge of one piaster per bag is paid by the buyer, and the coffee then becomes the property of the European merchant.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

More pretentious establishments charge twenty paras, while a giddy few rise to a piaster -- not quite five cents -- or a piaster and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

I observed that she tried to avoid the eyes of the janissary who was walking behind me; I gave her one piaster, she left me, and I proceeded toward Yusuf's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Once more both towns were plundered of every bale of merchandise and of every piaster, and once more both were ransomed until everything was squeezed from the wretched inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference

My master frequently gave me small sums of money, sometimes as much as a gooroosh, or Turkish dollar, or piaster at a time, which I invariably spent for sweetmeats, as soon as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa] Reference

"Dear reader please bear in mind that the customer service call takes 50 piaster as a service to be provided to you and to keep up with the best quality, in addition for the 1 JD taken for the university support fee in compliance with fees law.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwaider Planet] Reference

Another row was the consequence, at the end of which another piaster was doled out to him, and forward we moved till we were fairly within cry of the ship, when I called out for assistance, and they pushed us directly alongside, behind the paddle-box.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852] Reference

A room that is at all decent in a private house costs four or five reaux (2s.) a day; the table d'hote a piaster (4s.); but washing is more expensive than anything else, on account of the great scarcity of water, for every article, large or small, costs a real (6d.).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey Round the World] Reference

At least I think it’s worth a millime, not even a piaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The latest Jewish Conspiracy...] Reference

He wouldn't accept a piaster more than the price agreed on. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference

"Let's hope they ride back to the consul and swear they haven't received one piaster of their pay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eye of Zeitoon] Reference

(A piaster was worth roughly a penny.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

I observed that she tried to avoid the eyes of the janissary who was walking behind me; I gave her one piaster, she left me, and I proceeded toward Yusuf’s house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference

The piaster = an American dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initial Studies in American Letters] Reference

Abdul Hamid refuse to take a piaster less.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 44, September 9, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

First one piaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852] Reference

A doctor and piaster to cure their wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Arthurian Romances] Reference

It’s not even worth a piaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The latest Jewish Conspiracy...] Reference