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Definition of Piasters
1. piaster [n] - See also: piaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piasters
| piapec piarachnoid piarist piarists pias piasaba piasabas piasava piasavas piaster | piasters (current term) piastre piastres piation piazza piazzalike piazzas piazze piazzian pibal | pibals pibble pibbles pibcorn pibcorns |
Literary usage of Piasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"The commerce with foreign countries in 1894 is shown in the following table,
giving the values in Turkish piasters, worth 4'4 cents : The imports of sugar ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"989 piasters. The largest amounts exported to individual countries were ...
piasters ; cocoons, 33.338.000 piasters; drugs and dyes, ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1858)
"paper money, is quoted at 122 25-40 piasters ; whilst, on the 7th of last month,
it was quoted at 118 25-40 piasters. So great was the fluctuation of the ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1890)
"The imports and exports in 1887-'88 were returned as in the following table,
giving in Turkish piasters (1 piaster = 4-4 cents) the trade with the principal ..."
5. The Literary Magazine, and American Register by Charles Brockden Brown (1804)
"Their cargoes consisted of 24060 piasters-in gold; 69050 cwt. of salted flesh,
15600 arrobas of tallow ; 252 dozens of manufactured sheepskins ; 323 skins ..."
6. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1829)
"... and scarcely threw into commerce the value of two millions of piasters in
sugar and tobacco, the island of Cuba alone might be worth a kingdom to Spain" ..."
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