drachm in a sentence

Examples

1. In the original Salerno weight system an ounce was divided into 9 drachms, and so an " aureo " would have been Y ! of an ounce.
2. A volume of liquid that was approximately that of an apothecaries'ounce of water was called a fluid ounce, and was divided into fluid drachms and sometimes also fluid scruples.
3. The Romans minted their first coins during the early 3rd century BC . The earliest coins were-like other coins in the region-silver drachms with a supplementary bronze coinage.
4. His drachms were square, another feature that was rare among Indo-Greeks but standard for Sakas, and this indicates that Philoxenus had connections with the nomads that had conquered Bactria.
5. On some of Strato II's silver drachms the letter sigma is written as C ( a lunate sigma ), a not uncommon trait on late Hellenistic coins in the east.
6. They are occasionally small versions of more common drachms circulating in the region, or feature entirely new portraits / images with some or no resemblance to commonly circulating coins of the period.
7. She was represented on the obverse of common drachms produced by the city of Larissa between 400 BCE and at least 340 BCE, as a three-quarters face with outward flowing hair.
8. As an unofficial but once widely used unit of Apothecaries'measure, the teaspoon is equal to 1 fluid dram ( or drachm ) and thus of a tablespoon or of a fluid ounce.
9. This is close to the classical Greek weight system, where a " mina " ( corresponding roughly to a Roman " libra " ) was also divided into 100 drachms.
10. The tables of imperial troy mass and apothecaries'mass are the same as the corresponding United States tables, except for the British spelling " drachm " in the table of apothecaries'mass.