- pre-Islamic
times and afterwards,
inherited its name from the
drachma or
didrachm (δίδραχμον, 2 drachmae); the
dirham is
still the name of the
official currencies...
-
grams (6 scruples),
consistent with the
weight of a
south Italian Gr****
didrachm. It was
minted for a
number of
years until shortly before the introduction...
- time. This
predecessor of the
denarius was a Gr****-styled
silver coin of
didrachm weight,
which was
struck in
Neapolis and
other Gr****
cities in southern...
- A
didrachm coin
depicting the
winged Talos, an
automaton or
artificial being in
ancient Gr**** myth, c. 300 BC...
-
three silver drachmas of 2.9 g (1.9 dwt), and the
Aeginetan stater or
didrachm of 12.2 g (7.8 dwt),
based on a
drachma of 6.1 g (3.9 dwt). The word drachm(a)...
-
Theseus and the
Minotaur was
frequently represented in Gr**** art. A
Knossian didrachm exhibits on one side the Labyrinth, on the
other the
Minotaur surrounded...
- A
Macedonian didrachm minted during the
reign of
Archelaus I of
Macedon (r. 413–399 BC)...
- animal,
possibly a wolf,
nursing a
single infant. By 269 BC, the
silver didrachm is the
earliest depiction of the
complete icon, with the characteristic...
- barley, June 242 BC. The
minute difference in
weight between a
shekel and
didrachm (weighing 8.6 g silver)
could not be
expressed in this
barter system, and...
-
Didrachm of Athens, 545–510 BC Obv: Four-spoked
wheel Rev:
Incuse square,
divided diagonally Silver didrachm of
Athens of
heraldic type from the time of...
