What is "goldpiece"

Usage examples of "goldpiece".

If I can scrape together fifteen thousand goldpieces, even cheapened ones.

Women exclaimed over lengths of cloth dyed Makuraner-style in colorful stripes and argued with merchants about the quality of their bay leaves while their husbands fingered the edges of daggers and tried to get the most in exchange for debased goldpieces.

And even if the campaign should run longer than we expect, we won't have to send back to the city for more goldpieces, just to the local mint at, at—" He snapped his fingers in irritation, unable to remember the town's name.

The goldpieces squandered on shipping artisans and stone from the Empire!

Along with jade and polished opals, Videssian goldpieces ornamented Seirem's bughtaq.

Scaurus would have bet a good many goldpieces that Styppes was already oblivious to the world.

Two of the goldpieces were Yezda, stamped with Yezd's leaping panther and a legend in a script the tribune could not read.

As he had been instructed, he tossed goldpieces into the crowd, now right, now left.

Not only had they cost him three goldpieces —one of them a fine, pure coin minted by the Emperor Rha sios Akindynos a hundred twenty years ago—to his mind they were by rights a losing throw.

Are the seal-stampers si phoning off goldpieces to buy themselves counting-boards with beads of ruby and silver?

I saw what was done, saw the new minted goldpieces of the Sphrantzai in the murderers' pouches.

A separate fight broke out when they overran the guards protecting the horses that carried the tribute and started quarreling over the goldpieces like a pack of dogs over a juicy bone.

They shouted to one another in their own guttural language, captains urging their men away from the loot of the imperial tent, away from the spilled goldpieces, and into the fight.

If he did come up with them, where would he get the goldpieces to pay them?

Maniakes wouldn't have risked a copper to win a pile of goldpieces that it would be as he had said—he knew well-bred arrogance when he saw it—but perhaps the officer believed he was telling the truth, and was properly apologetic any which way.