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noun

Drachma n. (pl. E. drachmas, L. drachmae)

A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents (U. S. currency, ca. 1913).

A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.

Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drachma" Quotes from Famous Books

... it, when you see that your enemy will be strengthened, and your own advantages lost or considerably lessened, by the delay, is a most pernicious imprudence. With relation to my accounts, I had nothing to fear. I had not embezzled one drachma of public money, nor added one to my own paternal estate; and the people had placed so entire a confidence in me that they had allowed me, against the usual forms of their government, to dispose of large sums for secret service, without account. When, ...

— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton

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