Drachma

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The DRACHMA is different, it was a Greek coin which the Roman DENARIUS (translated unfortunately "penny" Rev_6:6, a laborer's daily wages Mat_20:2-9) superseded: Luk_15:8-9, "PIECE OF SILVER," Greek drachmee. (See PENNY.) The "penny," denarius, in metal was equivalent to 7 1/2 pence, but could purchase more than our shilling.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


The value of a common drachma was sevenpence, English. A didrachma, or double drachma, made very near half a shekel; and four drachmas made nearly a shekel.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


Drach?ma, a coin of silver, the most common among the Greeks, and which after the Exile became also current among the Jews (2Ma_4:19; 2Ma_10:20; 2Ma_12:43; Luk_15:8-9). The earlier Attic drachmae were of the average weight of 66.5 grains, and in a comparison with the shilling would be equal to 9?d. But the specimens of later times are of the average weight of only 61 grains, and some of less. In this state the drachma was counted equal to the denarius, which was at first worth 8?d. and afterwards only 7?d.The value of the drachma of the New Testament may therefore have been about 8d. The woman's 'ten pieces of silver' (drachma) in Luk_15:8, would hence be equal to 6s. 8d. of our money ?that is, in nominal value, for the real value of money was far greater in the time of Christ than at present.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Drachma
(δραχμή, "drachm," 2Ma_4:19; 2Ma_10:20; 2Ma_12:43; "piece of silver," Luk_15:8-9), a Greek silver coin, consisting of 6 oboli (Bockh, Staatshaus. 1:16 sq.), but varying in weight on account of the use of different talents. The Jews must have been acquainted with three talents — the Ptolemaic, used in Egypt, and at Tyre, Sidon, and Berytus, and adopted for their own shekels; the Phoenician, used at Aradus and by the Persians; and the Attic, which was almost universal in Europe, and in a great part of Asia. The drachmae of these talents weigh respectively, during the period of the Maccabees, about 55 grs. Troy, 58.5, and 66 (see De Rome de l'Isle, Metrologie, Paris, 1789, page 81 sq.). The drachms mentioned in 2 Macc. are probably of the Seleucidae, and therefore of the Attic standard; but in Luke denarii seems to be intended, for the Attic drachma had been at that time reduced to about the same weight as the Roman denarius (q.v.) as well as the Ptolemaic drachma, and was wholly or almost superseded by it. This explains the remark of Josephus that “the shekel was worth four Attic drachmae" (Ant. 3:8, 2), for the four Ptolemaic drachmse of the shekel, as equal to four denarii of his time, were also equal to four Attic drachmase; and the didrachm (q.v.) was equivalent to the sacred half shekel (War, 7:6, 6; Mat_17:24) of the Temple-tax. (See Bockh, Metrolog. Unters. Berl. 1838.) — Smith, s.v. SEE DRAM; SEE DARIC; SEE SILVER, PIECE OF.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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