1) Currency of Africa 2) Currency of Haiti 3) Former Spanish dollar 4) Fractional monetary unit 5) Money unit of Mideast 6) Piaster 7) Saigon money 8) Subunit 9) Turkish coin, to a Londoner 1) Piaster 
The piastre or piaster refers to a number of units of currency. The term originates from the Italian for `thin metal plate`. The name was applied to Spanish and Hispanic American pieces of eight, or pesos, by Venetian traders in the Levant in the 16th century. These pesos, minted continually for centuries, were readily accepted by traders in man.....
• (n.) See Piaster.
(from the article `coin`) ...great miscellany of currencies before decolonization and independence were achieved from the mid-20th century. Egypt, gaining independence from ...
Pi·as'tre noun See Piaster . 
The piastre is a former silver coin used in Spain, and populary called by the English a 'piece of eight' from its being divided into eight silver reals. The piastre is a former silver coin used in Egypt and Turkey