Here, as at Cairo, the piastre is of two kinds, metallic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

What possible future had he got that was worth a piastre?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quiet American]

She looked at the silver piastre in her palm, and then at Holmes.    From Wordnik.com.  [O Jerusalem]

One piastre equal to forty paras or diwanys, as they are called in the Hedjaz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia] Reference

Being satisfied with my guide, I gave him one piastre, with which he was content.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

Bedawin the kilogramme for four piastres copper (= one piastre currency = five farthings).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

The worst is the Asal Asmar (brown honey), which sells for something under a piastre per pound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

It is perfectly quiet; I have green trees to look upon, and spend the sum of one piastre a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Two Brides] Reference

A servant therefore was sent out to bring a boy by the offer of a piastre, and one was soon produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.] Reference

Camels, a male and female, shall be sent in payment for that for which thou hast not paid one piastre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Love] Reference

It may have lost in being translated, but it amounted to this: "Him husband hab -- werry good: plenty piastre got.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

Sixteen years ago the hire of a boat from the harbour to the roadstead was a piastre and a half: now it is at least five.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

The silver unit is the piastre, worth 4 cents of our currency, and silver coins of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 piastres are current.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference

And finally, he has not more than a piastre or two in his pocket, for he has squandered the large presents given to him at Cairo and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

The Parah (Turkish), Faddah (Egyptian), or Diwani (Hijazi word), is the 40th part of a piastre, or nearly the quarter of a farthing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

I had scarcely landed when the boat came after me; and they were very glad afterwards to take the piastre for carrying me back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Nubia] Reference

It is necessary to lay in a large quantity of small change by way of “bakhshísh,” such as ten and twenty parah bits (40 = 1 piastre).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian] Reference

I could not get a piastre for my trouble and expense.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Slaves] Reference

The charge for this service is about half a piastre; and I.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

PIECES OF EIGHT, Spanish coin: piastre equal to eight reals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference

The poorer delyls are contented with the fourth of a piastre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred] Reference

Guayquerias sold at half a piastre, costs a piastre and a half.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference

"A piastre, and a drink of the fire water," replied the vizier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference

The piastre (sometimes termed "disaster") was worth about 2-1/2d.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference

Indeed, we have never expected a piastre -- no, not even a tlaco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember the Alamo] Reference

Now, it is almost impossible to get change for a Tunisian piastre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference

There was a smaller coin -- a millieme -- equal to one-tenth of a piastre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula] Reference

The Spanish piastre is now synonymous with a dollar and so worth about four shillings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I] Reference

It is the fortieth of the piastre and may be assumed at the value of a quarter-farthing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Here, as at Cairo, the piastre is of two kinds, metallic (debased silver) and non-metallic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference

"I'm quite sure you will be able to find some," I replied, placing a half-piastre in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference