A pistareen was a Spanish coin worth about seventeen cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771] Reference

So, if I may not believe in a "pistareen Providence," I must make.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Mr. Emerson becomes equally flippant and irreverent when he speaks of a "pistareen Providence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

You are nothing but a pistareen, and rather smooth at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young] Reference

The tenth will be precisely the Spanish bit, or half pistareen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography] Reference

A pistareen, you know, was 18 3/4 cents -- that is a sevenpence and a thrip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

The double tenth, equal to 2, or one-fifth of a dollar, or to the pistareen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography] Reference

A man could afflict another with a pistareen letter that wasent worth five cents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

The high Germans above us, like that Herkimer you saw here Tuesday, do you think they care a pistareen for the King?.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Valley] Reference

There are a great many folks in the world who, like this pistareen, pass themselves off, or try to pass themselves off, for more than their real value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young] Reference

Many were so worn that a pistareen would bring only a Yankee shilling, sixteen and two-thirds cents; the half-pistareen, only eight cents; the real, ten; the half-real, five.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6)] Reference

Perhaps it would not be amiss to coin three more pieces of silver, one of the value of five-tenths, or half a dollar, one of the value of two-tenths, which would be equal to the Spanish pistareen, and one of the value of five coppers, which would be equal to the Spanish half-bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography] Reference

But every time I ask him to change a pistareen, or give me two fo'pencehappennies for a ninepence, or help me to make out two and thrippence (mark the old Master's archaisms about the currency), what does the fellow do but put his hand in his pocket and pull out an old Roman coin; I have no change, says he, but this assarion of Diocletian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference

Whenever I hear a boy asking somebody to write a composition for him, or to help him write one, which he intends to palm off as his own, or see him jog the boy that sits next him in the school-room, to get some help in reciting a bad lesson, I think of the pistareen, and want very much to caution the little fellow not to pass for more than he is worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young] Reference

"pistareen Providence" is a belief in pantheism or polytheism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

'pistareen Providence, dressed in the clean shirt and white neckcloth of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

“A modest tongue, thou midnight scamperer! look to my geldings — Here — here are two Dutch florins, three stivers, and a Spanish pistareen for thee; one of the florins is for thy old mother, and with the others thou canst lighten thy heart in the Paus merrymakings — if.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Water-witch, Or, the Skimmer of the Seas] Reference

Tavern and could be seen for half a pistareen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

He's nothing but a pistareen, and hardly that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young] Reference

29. pistareen.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Hast ever that pistareen about thee? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference

Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste-pot work, American art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

Do you term that perpetual, pistareen, paste-pot work, American art, American drama, taste, verse?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference

I had laid up, for a long time, all the pennies I could obtain, which, at that time, amounted to the vast sum of twenty cents, contained in an old-fashioned pistareen; and the hope sprung up in my heart, that, possibly, by paying this to the officers, they would not carry me to jail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Small Means and Great Ends] Reference