Unit of currency, used in Ancient and Modern Greece.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains.
The currency issued in Greece between 1832 and December 31, 2000.
1 Is there a short-cut that avoids this pain: bringing back the drachma ?
2 The drachma also advanced against both major European currencies and the dollar.
3 It's not just that the transition to the drachma would be terrible.
4 May my hand wither if that wine is worth half a drachma !
5 Going back to the drachma would kill the Greek economy, Samaras said.
6 Greece needs a currency devaluation, a new currency, a new drachma .
7 Which leaves us with the million - drachma question: What happened to Kronos?
8 But the drachma would be expected to fall quickly on foreign exchange markets.
9 If Greece withdraws from the euro it will go back to the drachma .
10 Logistically, security printing of drachma banknotes would not initially be necessary.
11 And, unless it returns to the drachma , borrowing is Greece's only way forward.
12 The lost drachma was simply put back in the woman's purse.
13 I searched my pockets for money, and found nothing but a golden drachma .
14 Still I am not angry when a drachma comes to me.
15 Would Grexit be a gradual, controlled process or a sudden return to the drachma ?
16 A cripple without legs having succeeded in seizing a drachma , the applause was frenetic.
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