I have recorded several dozen specimens of local copper coins imitating
drachms of the Indo-Greek king Menander from the 2nd century BC (figure 10)--the very same Menander who became the protagonist of the Buddhist text, Questions of Milinda.
A
drachm, better known as a dram, is equal to an eighth of a fluid ounce - and brimstone is an archaic term for sulphur.
(42) Then there is the drug strychnon manikon, on which the sources all repeat that a single unit (
drachm) in wine would induce a state of euphoria or pleasurable hallucinations, but a dose as strong as four units would be lethal.
A dram, short for
drachm, is an imperial unit of weight measuring one 16th of an ounce, equivalent to almost 1.8 grams.
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(9) If we assume that a
drachm is the equivalent of a denarius, and in Plutarch's day worth 4 sesterces, hence the debt in HS = 8 000, Sulpicius' debt at 12 million HS was enormous.
This year's issue contains 11 articles on such topics as a reconsideration of an early Marwanid silver
drachm, Qarakhanid wall paintings in the citadel of Samarqand, turning the pages of an Ottoman illustrated manuscript, the Taj Mahal, Ottoman building registers as sources for the archeology and construction history of the Black Sea fortress of Ozi, the urban and architectural evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu, the use and meaning of Catholic spaces in late Ottoman Istanbul, and the Hubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an agent of urban change.
Tetradrachms are about nine to ten grams in weight, as if they have four
drachms inside, which were the smallest coins in that time, Pieta explains.It is highly probable that they are minted from silver originating from a Carpathian (Slovak) deposit.
Right up to the Buddhist period, when Lahore was a pure Buddhist city, the silver
drachms was used with Greek markings.
The Sogdian contract from Turfan for the purchase of a slave girl in the year 629 specifies payment in "120
drachms of very pure Persian struck [coins]." (197) Quite a few specimens of Sasanian coinage that somehow survived melting down for their precious metal are known from East Asia.
Starting with a discussion on the smallest examples of art, the design of coins, Sadeq illustrated how the coinage, known as
drachms, of the vast Persian Sassanid empire of the 3rd to 7th centuries AD, often depicted elaborately dressed rulers on one side of the coin with a Zoroastrian fire altar on the reverse.
At other times, the following units were used: lines, ounces,
drachms, inches, etc.
