Definition of "piasters" []

• Plural form of piaster. (noun)

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• "Local bread ovens first raised prices to one Egyptian pound per loaf usually its 10 or 15 piasters, and now they are running out of flour."
• "A year ago I bought bread for 25 piasters [Egyptian cents]."
• "A year later, Defarkas took him in, paying him 20 piasters a week -- about 60 cents at the time."