Examples of using Drachma in English and their translations into Russian
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Colloquial
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Official
Drachmas, I hope.
Thousand thousand drachma.
Drachma of Alexandria.
Thousand 950 drachmas.
The drachma. The drachma!
Two thousand drachmas.
Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?
Funeral expences are one million drachmas.
I got 50 drachma on you!
The state will subsidize you with 4 million drachmas.
The Middle Eastern drachma was modeled on the besant.
You want an overnight shipment to Hades, that will be 250 drachmas.
Its budget is 3.3 billion drachmas 9,680,000 euros.
Athenians and foreigners, free and enslaved alike, worked on this project,receiving a salary of one drachma per day.
The 25 and 40 lepta and 1 drachma values from this set were re-issued in 1926.
National currency andunit of measure: Drachma millions.
A delivery benefit of 25,000 drachmas is also granted if effected in a private clinic.
National currency andunit of measure: drachma 1,000,000.
Now the debt trap is closing. The traditional way out would be to devalue the drachma, in order to cut imports and stimulate exports, distributing the overall burden of adjustment to the nation as a whole-- rich and poor.
The new exchange rate was fixed at 50 billion old drachmae to 1 new drachma.
Proponents of the proposal argue that leaving the euro and reintroducing the drachma would dramatically boost exports and tourism and while discouraging expensive imports and thereby give the Greek economy the possibility to recover and stand on its own feet.
The cost incurred to date is 300 million drachmas(880,000 euros);
Later issues included a 1953 set of two(300 and 500 drachmae) to raise funds for reconstruction in the Ionian Islands after an earthquake anda 1956 set of two(50 lepta and 1 drachma) for the Macedonian Studies Society Fund, to help finance archaeological studies in the region.
Around 500 BC, a large painted vase cost about one drachma, equivalent to the daily wage of a stonemason.
Some economic experts argue that the best option for Greece, and the rest of the EU, would be to engineer an"orderly default",allowing Athens to withdraw simultaneously from the eurozone and reintroduce its national currency the drachma at a debased rate.
The reason being that one gold stater generally weighed roughly 8.5 g(0.30 oz),twice as much as a drachma, while the parity of gold to silver, after some variance, was established as 1:10.
They also included a drastic devaluation of the drachma, attraction of foreign investments, significant development of the chemical industry, development of tourism and the services sector in general and massive construction activity connected with huge infrastructure projects and rebuilding in the Greek cities.
The British money printing company De La Rue was, according to rumours on 18 May 2012,preparing to print new drachma notes based on old moulds, which De La Rue refused to comment.
The set of eight stamps, with denominations of 1 lepton, 5, 10, 25 and 50 lepta,1 drachma and 2 and 5 drachmae, depicted an infantryman aiming a rifle while others look on; the 10 lepta and 25 lepta values were inscribed only with ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ(these were released in February), while the others read ΑΥΤΟΝΟΜΟΣ ΗΠΕΙΡΟΣ these were released in March with the exception of the 5 drachma, .
If ELA freezes the emergency liquidity without having an agreement,then there won't be any euro either so a new currency must be introduced(for example drachma) to keep the financial system alive in Greece and to be able to pay the salaries etc.
