drachmas in A Sentence

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    Averoff donated 920,000 Drachmas to this project.

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    that will be 250 Drachmas.

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    Gold Drachmas. It means we're on the right track.

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    Gold Drachmas. That means we're on the right track.

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    Old and new currency of Greece: Drachmas and euros.

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    Already I miss the 30 drachma he owes me.

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    The total cost of the Games was 3,740,000 gold Drachmas.

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    The men collecting the two Drachmas tax had asked Peter:“ Does

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    Instead of the minimum three months, I was condemned to just ten days in prison and a 300- drachma fine.

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    you will find a stater[ four Drachmas] coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”.

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    Lucian idealised this principle in his story of Sisinnes, who voluntarily fought as a gladiator, earned 10, Drachmas and used it to buy freedom for his friend, Toxaris.

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    The fiscal framework of the U.S. government is thus different from that of, say, Detroit- which cannot print its own dollars- or Greece, which now uses euros and can no longer print Drachmas.

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    Courage, dignity, altruism and loyalty were morally redemptive; Lucian idealised this principle in his story of Sisinnes, who voluntarily fought as a gladiator, earned 10,000 Drachmas and used it to buy freedom for his friend, Toxaris.

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    Zappas, was born poor and was uneducated as a child, but grew up to be one of the richest people in Eastern Europe(at the time of his death in 1865 his estate was worth around six million gold Drachmas).

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    In fact, in 1968, when Lykoudis refused to stop treating(and curing) his patients' stomach ulcers with antibiotics, he was fined 4000 Drachma for his troubles and was largely regarded as a quack until Marshall went all freshman on a glass of Helicobacter pylori.

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    Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002, writing about the value of money in ancient Athens makes the following point pages 76-77:"Two obols were the day's pay of a labourer, while the architect of the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis earned link three times as much, a drachma a day.

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    Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002, writing about the value of money in ancient Athens makes the following point pages 76-77:"Two obols were the day's pay of a labourer, while the architect of the Erechtheum temple on the Acropolis earned about three times as much, a drachma a day.

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    As a rough but useful guide as to the value of such coins, the average day's pay for a manual worker in Great Britain in 1982 was over £27, while a first-rate consultant architect(not necessarily of the quality of those that built the Parthenon) would expect to earn at least £200 a day, worth in today's inflated currency some 25,000 drachmae.".

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