Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
dekadrachm .
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- noun A unit of currency in
Ancient Greece , worth tendrachmas .
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Examples
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Syracusan decadrachm with the head of Persephone, which is at once rare, well preserved, and beautiful.
A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Syracusan decadrachm with the head of Persephone, which is at once rare, well preserved, and beautiful.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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The purchases include 'a silver decadrachm of Alexander the Great, 'from the collection of Colonel Rawlinson, -- the first ever discovered, --' and two very rare British _gold_ coins, having on them the name TIN. '"
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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