drachmas

There aren't printing presses in Athens producing bits of paper called drachmas, but we're getting closer to the brink.

Wanted: Plans for the Euro's Demise 2011

Less than a decade ago, Greeks joined a newly-minted, powerful single European currency that promised prosperity and affordable European Union imports that previously carried a high cost in Greek drachmas.

IOL: News 2010

Less than a decade ago, Greeks joined a newly-minted, powerful single European currency that promised prosperity and affordable European Union imports that previously carried a high cost in Greek drachmas.

IOL: News 2010

Less than a decade ago, Greeks joined a newly-minted, powerful single European currency that promised prosperity and affordable European Union imports that previously carried a high cost in Greek drachmas.

IOL: News 2010

Gibbon reports that Julianus paid for the Roman Empire in "drachmas".

America begins slide into third world status 2007

Phrynus snorted because Cleon paid his crew a talent for each voyage and, when everything was settled, the average was considerably more than two drachmas.

The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

LONDON—As the euro-zone debt crisis intensified in recent months, at least two global banks took steps to install back-up technology systems that could handle trades in old European currencies like drachmas, escudos and lire.

Banks Struggle With Euro Contingencies Sara Schaefer Munoz 2011

There is the risk that you will be paid in drachmas rather than euros, but, hey, no investment is without a bit of risk.

Waking Up to Greece's Default Position Irwin Stelzer 2011

“I will pay my standard rate of two drachmas a day!”

The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009

“For two drachmas per worker,” another collective gasp and Erabulus went purple, “with five for him,” Phrynus pointed at the foreman, who was greatly mollified by that.

The One Handed Rower of Myonnesus « A Fly in Amber 2009