Talk:pistole

coin

http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/pistole says the coin sense is first attested in 1619, which in the Modern French not the Middle French period, though only by 10 years. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:23, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

• The origin "whistle" is unlikely, for a coin. One theory that I saw was that pistols and pistoles were both first made at Pistoia in Italy. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:55, 19 March 2017 (UTC)