Voorbeelden van drachma

• The drachma was the principal silver coin among the Greeks, containing sixty-six grains of pure metal, worth about seventeen and a half cents. 

• Its primary function is to support and stabilise the rate of the drachma.

• The country must reintroduce the drachma, as its membership of the euro area is untenable.

• You have the problem of the fantastic rise in the drachma exchange.

• Additions have been made to their salaries, but in relation to the internal purchasing power of the drachma and not to its value in sterling.

• All these people were given an allowance of 17 drachmas a day, which is not even enough to pay the rent of the accommodation that they were forced to occupy.

• If the printing press is set to turn out drachma notes by the million, the hundred million, every month, of course things are bound to end in irretrievable disaster.

• The drachma went from 12,000 to 20,000, to 30,000, to 40,000, to 50,000, and our advisers told us last week that it very soon might be at 100,000.