didrachm

[ dahy-dram ]

noun

1. a silver coin of ancient Greece equal to two drachmas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of didrachm¹

1540–50; < Late Latin didrāchmon < Greek dídrachmon worth two drachms. See di- ¹, drachma

Example Sentences

In Alexandrian accounts also the unit of money was the silver didrachm, and thus double that in use among the merchants of Greece.

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