Noun:

டிராஷ்மா,

drachma's Usage Examples:

From Phoenicia this naturally became the main Punic unit; a bronze weight from Iol (18), marked 100, gives a drachma of 56 or 57 (224-228); and a Punic inscription (18) names 28 drachmae 25 Attic, and therefore 57 to 59 grains (228-236); while a probably later series of 8 marble disks from Carthage (44) show 208, but vary from 197 to 234.

PESETA, a silver coin and unit of value, the Spanish equivalent of the French, Belgian and Swiss franc, the Italian lira and the Greek drachma in the Latin monetary union.

6), and it was divided both into 100 drachmae, and also in the Italic mode of 12 unciae and 288 scripulae (44).

On the other hand, Tissaphernes undertook to pay the Peloponnesian sailors a daily wage of one Attic drachma (afterwards reduced to a drachma).

European Bloc Eurosystem currencies plus the Danish krone, the Swedish krona, the Norwegian krone, the Greek drachma and the Swiss franc.

The 80-grain system, as we have seen, was probably formed by binarily dividing the 10 shekels, or "stone"; and it had a talent (Abydus lion) of 5000 drachmae; this is practically identical with the talent of 6000 Attic drachmae.

At the same time the Greek drachma joined the ERM.

3, the so-called Phocaean drachma, equal in silver value to the 1/60 of the gold 258 grains.

Böckh decides that the "Alexandrian drachma" was 6/5ths of the Solonic 67, or 80.

Then Attic: Euboic or Aeginetan :: 18:25 in the metrologists (2), and the Euboic talent 7000 "Alexandrian" drachmae; the drachma therefore is 80.

Then the "Alexandrian mina" of Dioscorides and Galen (2) is 20 unciae 8250; in the "Analecta" (2) it is 150 or 158 drachmae 8100.

1,678,566 Other sources 780,967 Education and Justice 1,453,500 4,34 1, 66 7 4,026,736 The salary of the high commissioner was reduced in 1907 to 100,000 drachmae.

Synonyms:

lepton, Greek drachma, Greek monetary unit,

Antonyms:

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