"Lira" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... called in Latin Documents Libra denariorum Venetorum grosorum.[6] Like every Lira or Pound, this consisted of 20 soldi, and each soldo of 12 denari or deniers.[7] In this case the Lira was equivalent to 10 golden ducats; and its Denier, as the name implies, was the Grosso. The Grosso therefore here was 1/240 of 10 ducats or 1/24 of a ducat, instead ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... ago or even longer. At that period of indigence and simplicity, the municipal museums, though usually kept shut, were always opened to foreigners. One evening an old woman with a candle showed me, for half a lira, the sordid museum of Arezzo, and in it I discovered a painting by Margaritone, a "St. Francis," the pious sadness of which moved me to tears. I was deeply touched, and Margaritone, of Arezzo became from ...
— Penguin Island • Anatole France
... is of two kinds, metallic (debased silver) and non-metallic. Government pays in the former, which is called Sagh ("coin"); and the same is the term throughout Egypt. The value fluctuates, but 97-1/2 may be assumed one sovereign (English), and one hundred to the Egyptian "lira." The second kind, used for small purchases, is not quite half the value of the former (205:100); in North-Western Arabia it is called Abyas ("white"), and Tarifa ("tariff"); the latter term in Cairo always signifying the Sagh or metallic. The dodges of the Shroffs, or ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
