A silver (later also copper alloy) coin of ancient Greece, of the value of 1/6 of a drachma. Cf. obolus, n. 3.

The principal silver coin of the ancient Greeks, the drachma, n.; containing 6 obols. It varied in weight and value in different places. (Also drachma…

= mina, n. 1.

= drachm, n. 1, the ancient Greek coin. Obsolete.

A monetary unit formerly used in Greece and the Middle East, equivalent to the weight of one mina in silver. (Rendered ‘pound’ in some English…

Used to translate Greek δραχμή or Latin denarius.

An ancient Greek silver coin, of the value of two drachmæ: see drachma, n.

= drachm, n. 1. Also, the Jewish quarter-shekel.

Ancient History. = obol, n. Now rare.

A silver coin of ancient Greece, of the value of four drachms: see drachm, n. 1.

= obol, n. Obsolete.

A gold coin of low value, struck in the reign of Philip of Macedon. Cf. Philip, n. 1. Obsolete.

Any of various ancient gold or silver coins; esp. the tetradrachm.

A silver coin of ancient Greece of the value of four oboli.

A silver coin of ancient Greece, of the value of three drachms: see drachm, n. 1.

An ancient Cyrenaic coin worth five drachmas.

An ancient Greek coin of the value of three obols, or half a drachma.

An ancient Greek coin worth eight drachmas.

An ancient Greek silver coin of the value of 10 drachmas.

An ancient Greek coin of the value of about one-fourth of a farthing; the ‘mite’ of the English versions of the New Testament.

An ancient Greek gold coin of the value of 12 drachmas.

A silver coin of ancient Greece equal to two obols.

an ancient Greek coin of the value of 1½ obols.

An ancient Greek gold coin, of the value of two staters.

= hemiobolion n.