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.

• The book was priced at one drachma, far below the cost of production, and immediately began to sell steadily.

• Stabilisation of the drachma once again allowed for foreign borrowing.

• It consisted of eleven values: 1 lepton, 5, 10, 25 and 50 lepta, 1 drachma and 2, 3, 5, 10 and 25 drachmae.

• These stamps were sold at the post offices at a price higher than the face value, due to the depreciation of the drachma.

• This loan was never paid back and severely devalued the drachma.

• When it came to penal sanctions, no officeholder could impose a fine over fifty drachmas.

• Pay was introduced for levies under arms, both infantry and cavalry (at 1/3 and one "drachma" per day respectively).

• The third stamp was 2.40 drachma on 1 lire.