The piastre or piaster was a unit of currency. It was originally equal to one silver dollar or peso, served as the major unit of currency of French Indochina (Present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), and in the Ottoman Empire.
Noted in pop group Steely Dan's song "Doctor Wu" -- "Just when I'd spent the last piastre I could borrow."
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