Averoff donated 920,000 Drachmas to this project.
that will be 250 Drachmas.
Gold Drachmas. It means we're on the right track.
Gold Drachmas. That means we're on the right track.
Old and new currency of Greece: Drachmas and euros.
Already I miss the 30 drachma he owes me.
The total cost of the Games was 3,740,000 gold Drachmas.
The men collecting the two Drachmas tax had asked Peter:“ Does
Instead of the minimum three months,
I was condemned to just ten days in prison and a 300- drachma fine.
you will find a stater[ four Drachmas] coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you.”.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.".