Former Greek monetary unit

Usage examples of drachma.

I have elected to use when speaking of Hellenic currency rather than Roman, because the drachma most closely approximated the denarius in weight at around 4 grams.

For a moment Sinon toyed with the idea of blackmail, then he laughed, shrugged, tossed an expiatory drachma into the briskly foaming wake as an offering to Poseidon.

There would have been gold dinars, Byzantine coins, gold florins, drachmas, marks, along with unminted silver and gold.

Three hundred pounds of didrachmas, deca drachmas and tetra drachmas worth millions.

Drachmas, Yen, Eurodollars or other national currencies whenever his work took him on the road.

No drachma but had its other side: Andromeda in my opinion had near henpecked me out of cockhood.

The salary of a philosopher was ten thousand drachmae, between three and four hundred pounds a year.

The best sense seems to be, that the Praetorian guards received twelve hundred and fifty drachmae, (forty pounds a year,) (Dion, l.

The best sense seems to be, that the Praetorian guards received twelve hundred and fifty drachmae, (forty pounds a year,) (Dion, l.

Any who were not prepared to sail at once might, by paying down the sum of fifty Corinthian drachmae, have a share in the colony without leaving Corinth.

It was this, with Potidaea, that most exhausted her revenues- Potidaea being blockaded by a force of heavy infantry (each drawing two drachmae a day, one for himself and another for his servant), which amounted to three thousand at first, and was kept at this number down to the end of the siege.

As early as the sixth century we hear that Solon, the law-giver of Athens, provided a bounty of a hundred [159] drachmae ( Footnote: A drachma would be equal to about 9½d.

Archias was about to discharge the man with a caution not to get into trouble, he salving the wound which he had inflicted with half a dozen drachmae, when an unexpected difficulty arose.

When Manolis mentioned a sum of fifteen hundred drachmae his eyes lit up like lamps, and after he'd collected his fish, groceries, booze and other items for the taverna, then they were off.

The relieving troops shall be maintained by the city sending them for thirty days from their arrival in the city that has required them, and upon their return in the same way: if their services be desired for a longer period, the city that sent for them shall maintain them, at the rate of three Aeginetan obols per day for a heavy-armed soldier, archer, or light soldier, and an Aeginetan drachma for a trooper.