piaster

He put money away, I believe more than a million piasters.

He left his insurance policy of 18 million piasters to Vietnamese orphans.

They're very big landowners - probably worth quite a few million piasters."

"Excellency, this is every piaster I have in the world.

"You walked in and my life began again just when I'd spent the last piaster I could borrow"

The most a French judge will fine you is the cost of the funeral expenses - twenty-five piasters if in fact the boy has died.

Crat tossed a piaster into the band's cup, for luck.

There are also local cars that reach some of the monuments for 25 piasters, although tourists rarely use them.

They brought to the King the piaster which gave Erec great relief.

The club was a miniature bazaar and we its only patrons, bleeding piasters.

The big fund holders and anyone who held more than 20,000 piasters deposited in the common saving bank with the annual interest of 12%.

"Ten piasters apiece," he called in the same tongue.

If every one of us gives her a hundred piasters every month, she can live like a princess."

I remembered a small, open building where you could pick up a hamburger, Vietnamese-style, along with a cold beer for a few piasters.

After some bargaining he accepted Emerson's offer of an additional fifty piasters to lead me to the cave.

They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away.

It was suspected to be a drug operation with a thriving sideline in blackmarket piasters.

He even knocked off another piaster and a half when I noticed a very neatly repaired tear in the back of the jacket.

According to Löwe's investigations, the loss incurred amounted to 135,250 piasters.

Stamps of France were again surcharged, with values from 30 paras to 75 piasters.

They'd pay him a hundred thousand piaster for a LRP.

His only condition was that Suoi should not withdraw more than fifty thousand piasters per week for the first twelve weeks.

IT take your money and I'll give every piaster to the mutasarrif, then tell him what a swine you really are.

By the mid-nineteenth century, the governor was in charge of a yearly budget of over four million piasters.

The piastre or piaster refers to a number of units of currency.