Francs in example sentence

Some of these pearls were bigger than a pigeon egg; they more than equaled the one that the explorer Tavernier sold the Shah of Persia for 3,000,000 francs, and they surpassed that other pearl owned by the Imam of Muscat, which I had believed to be unrivaled in the entire world.

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Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"

And yet we're spending billions of Swiss francs on this problem.

For every time that you announce that you had a tails throw, you get paid five francs.

So if you say I had two tails throws, you get paid 10 francs.

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