I don't think so, our piastre don't come from the pound, actually for our ancestors, the piastre ( pronounce also piasse here ) was 120 sous, so 120 sous = 100 cents, we still call a 25 cents a 30 sous . The Italian was using a Piastra, probably it come from there. It's a French Canadian thing; in the rest of Canada they don't know that name. Wiki is more confusing than other thing when I search for it.
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