drachma

How To Use drachma In A Sentence

• The Greek letters XP combined in a monogram occur on pre-Christian coins (e.g. the Attic tetradrachma and some coins of the Ptolemies), and in some Greek manuscripts of the Christian period they are employed as an abbreviation of such words as (see Greek words 2, 3, 4). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• Pompey had laid out open chests on glistening display that morning which contained seventy-five million silver drachmae: more than the annual tax revenue of the entire Roman world. CONSPIRATA
• A didrachma was half a sicle, or half a stater; that is, about 15d. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision
• In April 1992 the Greek drachma was the only Community currency not yet part of the EMS exchange-rate mechanism.
• Banks and investment funds in one euro-using country gorged on the bonds of others, freed of worry about devaluation-prone currencies like the drachma, lira, peseta and escudo. Ties That Bound Europe Now Fraying
• If you hadn't already noticed, gone are the good old peseta, the franc and the drachma.
• With a new and substantially devalued drachma, it would have a better future emerging from the ashes of a failed experiment in euro membership. Times, Sunday Times
• In Greece itself, the switch to the new drachma would probably not be announced in advance. Times, Sunday Times
• A young man, paying for a newspaper in drachmas on Tuesday, admitted: ‘It's the first day and I didn't think to use our euro coins.‘
• Little wonder there are dark mutterings that some in the elite are already planning for the new drachma. Times, Sunday Times