A 100 piastre note from French Indochina, circa 1954.

The piastre, originally a U.S. dollar-size silver coin, served as the major unit of currency of French Indochina (Present-day Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos), and in the Ottoman Empire. Image File history File links FrenchIndochinaCentPiastres. ... Image File history File links FrenchIndochinaCentPiastres. ... French Indochina was a federation of protectorates in Southeast Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ... French Indochina was a federation of protectorates in Southeast Asia, part of the French colonial empire. ... Motto: دولت ابد مدت Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (The Eternal State) Anthem: Ottoman imperial anthem Borders in 1680, see: list of territories Capital Söğüt (1299-1326) Bursa (1326-1365) Edirne (1365-1453) Constantinople (Istanbul) (1453-1922) Language(s) Ottoman Turkish Government Monarchy Sultans  - 1281–1326 Osman I  - 1918–1922 Mehmed VI...

Early private bank currency issues in French-speaking regions of Canada were denominated in piastres. The term is still unofficially used in Quebec and Acadian slang as a reference to the Canadian dollar (the official French term for the modern Canadian dollar is dollar). Piastre was also the original French word for the United States dollar, used for example in the French text of the Louisiana Purchase. Modern French uses dollar for this unit of currency as well. Canadian French is the common term for naming the regional dialects or varieties of French found in Canada. ... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... ISO 4217 Code CAD User(s) Canada Inflation 2. ... From Frank Bond, Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase. ...

The piastre still exists as the subdivision of the Egyptian pound, Syrian pound and Jordanian dinar. Theoretically, the piastre also still exists in Lebanon, where it is a subdivision of the Lebanese pound; inflation, however, has rendered it superfluous and it is not currently in use. The new kuruş, the subvision of the Turkish new lira, is commonly known as the piastre. ISO 4217 Code EGP User(s) Egypt Inflation 4. ... ISO 4217 Code SYP User(s) Syria Subunit 1/100 piastre Symbol S£[citation needed] Coins 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 pounds Banknotes 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 pounds Central bank Central Bank of Syria Website www. ... The Jordanian dinar (ISO 4217 code JOD) is the official currency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the first official one in the State of Palestine. ... The Lebanese pound (Arabic lira, French livre, ISO 4217: LBP) is the currency unit of Lebanon. ... The new kuruÅŸ coin KuruÅŸ was a Turkish currency subunit. ... TRY banknotes and coins The Turkish new lira is the current currency of Turkey and of the de facto state Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. ...

See also

• French Indochinese piastre
• Ottoman Turkish Piastre