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• n  a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
• n  formerly the basic unit of money in Greece

• After that, shrewd promoters with an eye for a fast drachma started beauty contests all over the place.
• The value of the drachma rose slightlyat week's end, a dollar was worth a mere 90 million drachmas.
• They wagered 50,000 Greek drachma ($650) on the sovereign to whom they are accredited, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria.

• dram
• drachm
• Greek drachma

Quotes

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• Stylianos Pattakos in Axis of Logic
  Pattakos praised the junta's record: "In our time, there was no debt. Not one drachma went astray. The Greeks are not disciplined like the Germans or the British. They need authority."