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plural pistareens
(now historical) A Spanish silver coin worth two reales, used as common currency in the Americas in the 18th century. quotations
[T]hose poor souls never had more than nine pence per day, and seldom more than six pence, from their masters or owners, though they earned them three or four pisterines […] .
1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I