piastre

  1. Noun.  (context, now) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.
  2. Noun.  A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria.

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