English-Italian translations for drachma

• dracma
  Quando la Grecia è entrata nella zona euro i depositi in dracme potevano essere convertiti perché la dracma era stata abolita come valuta e non esiste più da allora. When Greece joined the euro area, it was possible to convert deposits in drachmas because the drachma was abolished as a currency and has not existed since.
  La Grecia deve reintrodurre la dracma e il Portogallo deve tornare all'escudo. Greece must get the drachma back and Portugal must re-introduce the escudo.
  Di recente, la Grecia ha deciso di far partecipare la dracma al sistema delle parità di cambio. Recently, Greece decided to bring the Drachma into the Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Definition of drachma

• The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro
• An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams

Related words

• drachm
• tetradrachm
• decadrachm
• didrachm
• decadrachma