- 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...
-
earlier "heraldic" type of
didrachms and it was in wide
circulation from c. 510 to c. 38 BC. The
transition from
didrachms to
tetradrachms occurred during...
- A
Macedonian didrachm minted during the
reign of
Archelaus I of
Macedon (r. 413–399 BC)...
-
accurately illustrated on a
series of fifth-century BC
silver coins,
including didrachms, from
Metapontum in Lucania. In the 10th
century AD,
Byzantine era Adages...
-
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...
- 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...
- A
didrachm coin
depicting the
winged Talos, an
automaton or
artificial being in
ancient Gr**** myth, c. 300 BC...
-
Pankaj Tandon and
Harry Falk.
Coinage was
issued in five denominations:
didrachms, drachms, hemidrachms,
quarter drachms, and obols; all
rulers did not...
- 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...
- of
smaller didrachms.
Coins lost
their weight both
before and
after the
abandonment of the tetradrachms.
Early tetradrachms and
didrachms were 15.6 g...
