| The euro, which replaces the old francs, marks, guilders, pesetas, escudos, drachmas, and lire of the European Union, is not yet five years old. |
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| Buying euros with sterling will be no different to the way in which we used to buy francs, drachmas and lire. |
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| Francs, Deutschmarks, guilders, punts, drachmas and pesetas will all have gone by the end of February. |
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| The basic unit of money was the drachma with a larger unit being the talent worth 6000 drachmas. |
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| Instead of paying in pesetas, lire, drachmas, francs and marks, approximately 300 million Europeans are now using one common currency, the euro. |
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| At the time of the Italian invasion in October 1940 an oka of bread cost 10 drachmas. |
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| The 2001 prize includes 3 million drachmas plus a travel grant. |
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| In Greece, beggars who ventured out on the streets of Athens on Monday after a three-day cold snap found their cups filling up with both drachmas and euros. |
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| While most of the people passing through that gate gave the man no more than a quick look of pity and a few drachmas, the apostles looked at him quite differently. |
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| Twenty deutschmarks would inoculate a child against all six major killer diseases and 8,000 drachmas would feed one hungry person every day for a week. |
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