piastre

Noun

historical

(now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real. / (historical) A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.

Japanese Meaning

（歴史的）スペインまたはスペイン系アメリカの貨幣および通貨単位（元々は8レアルに相当） / （歴史的）カナダのフランス語圏でかつて使用された通貨の形式

What is this buttons?

The merchant paid the tariff in a worn piastre that still bore the king's portrait.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その商人は、王の肖像がまだ残る擦り切れたスペインやスペイン領アメリカの硬貨（かつて8レアルに相当）で関税を支払った。

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Sense（1）

(now historical) A Spanish or Spanish-American coin and unit of currency, originally worth eight real.

The Silkes, Velvets, Cloth of gold, and Tissue, Pyasters, Chicqueenes and Sultanies, which is gold and silver, they unloaded in foure and twentie houres, was wonderfull ….

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Sense（2）

(historical) A form of currency formerly used in the French-speaking parts of Canada.

Sense（3）

(historical) A form of currency formerly used in French Indochina.

Sense（4）

A form of currency originally used in the Ottoman Empire, and now used as a subunit in the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, Libya, South Sudan, and Turkey, and formerly used in Cyprus

piastres

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