Sentences with word «drachma»

History is littered with examples of the failure of money, such as the Mark in post-WWI Weimar Germany and the Greek drachma in 1944.

You'll have to go to the Blacksmith NPC and shell out a fair amount of Drachmas (the game's currency), though.

If Greece left the Eurozone, and repaid loans in depreciated New Drachma, it would lead to a crisis in confidence regarding loans made to Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

The next doesn't really apply to Greece as things stand, since it's using the Euro, but if Greek debt had been denominated in Drachma it could have devalued its currency so as to repay the debt in funny money.

Helix Chests contain a single randomised weapon or shield, and they cost 3000 Drachma by the looks of it (they do today at least, and I just bought two of them).

When I visited Athens I bought beautiful bracelets with drachma, a now defunct currency, and stayed at a hotel that doesn't exist any more.

A subsistence farmer earned an estimated 500 drachmas per year for his crop.

Oddly, many in the NO camp are not advocating for a Grexit, while others are ready for the immediate, but unlikely, circulation of fresh drachma notes.

The first known instance of such a currency, the Greek drachma dates back to approximately 700BC.

The first man is in a debt of 10,000 talents which is the equivalent of 100 million silver drachmas - an impossible amount ever to pay off for an ordinary worker.

There is no concept that will suffice for harvests turned golden, lilies of the field, the lost drachma, the wounded man on the road to Jericho» (Morning Light: The Spiritual Journal of Jean Sulivan, 1988, p. 18).

So no, even if Greece restarts to use drachmas it will still be a member of EU and will veto FYROM's accession to the EU if it calls itself «Macedonia».

He is holding an old 1,000 Greek drachma bank note during a rally in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki on Monday.

It's also possible that they will get kicked out of the Euro and start printing Drachmas again, and try to pay the bonds back with those which could devalue the bonds through inflation.

So I will be using some of my points for a stay in Greece this summer (I just don't know if I'll be using Euros or Drachmas when I visit in August...).

Drachma not only gives the game an emotional center, but he was simply awesome.

The upcoming Ubisoft adventure will allow players to visit a vendor named Reda, spending the in - game currency called Drachma to purchase Heka Chests.

Those who purchase select Custom Collector's cans, four - packs, and ten - packs are able to redeem their codes for the chance to win in - game prizes like Drachma (in - game currency), Animal Resources, World Resources and bonus weapons not available in the game, including the Dust Biter sword, the Face Breaker long stave, the Scepter of Thaati long scepter and Rain Bow.

Leaving euro: capital flight, new currency has extreme risks, foreigners would not accept new drachma, contagion effects.

It really does pay off to venture away from the beaten path, as you never know where you might find a new weapon, piece of gear or bundle of Drachmas.

Polishers take «rusty» items found along the journey and, for a few drachmas (the in - game currency), will reveal their true form.

Expecting to be paid in Greek Drachmas might be pushing it a bit, seeing as they're a bit difficult to find these days, but other than that your landlord can and may write into the lease pretty much any condition he wants.

A «No» (Oxi) vote will mean that Greece will likely default on almost all its remaining debt, maybe exit the EU, abandon the euro and re-adopt its old currency, the drachma.

This explanation makes sense to the bloggers behind The Drachma Startup, a blog chronicling the author's efforts to start a company in crisis - stricken Greece that deserves a hat tip for pointing the way to Sorenson's study.

His statement was echoed by another former prime minister, Antonis Samaras, who said going back to the drachma would kill the Greek economy.

«Personally, I do worry about the bailout... I also think that if we were not part of the euro zone we would have greater instability, even though long - term maybe (returning to former currency) the drachma would help tourism.»

That said, should Greece exit the EU we would anticipate a surge in tourism numbers as the probable return to the drachma would make holidays in Greece attractively cheap,» BMI said.

«So long as he correctly reported his income from the album sale,» Bayer tells CNBC Make It, «it doesn't matter if he got paid in pesos, euros, drachma or bitcoin.»

If it does not receive cash and loans soon from European institutions, it could be forced to resort to government IOUs or a return to the drachma to keep its economy running.

In other words, the costs of staying with the Euro far outweight the costs of returning to the drachma.

But over time, Greece would be better off to abandon the Euro and return to the Drachma.

If European governments want the benefits of using the Deutsche Mark as their own currency then they'll need to accept the resonsibilities otherwise they can return to their Liras, Francs and Drachmas.

And for Greece's own wealthier classes, the EU loan package would enable the country to remain within the Eurozone long enough to permit them to move their money out of the country before the point arrived at which Greece would be forced to replace the euro with the drachma and devalue it.

One talent equaled approximately 10,000 drachmas (the normal currency amongst poor and agrarian classes).

By far the most likely outcome of scrapping the memorandum would be the troika refusing to disburse future loan installments and Greece having to go to the drachma to pay out salaries and wages.

This service is perhaps the only one I can render to Philosophy, I who have no learning to offer her, «scarcely enough for the course at one drachma, to say nothing of the great course at fifty drachmas» (Cratylus).

In Luke 15:1 - 10, then, the two points are made: the shepherd leaves the ninety - nine sheep to seek out the lost one, and rejoices when it is found; the woman drops everything else to seek out the one lost coin (the coin mentioned is probably a Greek drachma, literally worth sixteen cents, but in actual purchasing power many times more than that), and rejoices with her friends when it is found.

Though the reward is proportionate to the amount earned from the one «pound» (approximately 100 drachmas), this is not a contest in which the winner takes all.

The narrator uses this occasion to point out that Judas Maccabaeus believed in a future resurrection, for he «levied a contribution from each man, and sent the total of two thousand drachmas to Jerusalem for a sin - offering — a fit and proper act in which he took due account of the resurrection.

The tax then was One drachma (day's wage) per year, per person.

got ta start thinking in pounds and remember its heading the way of the drachma!!!

In Greece and Cyprus, the choice could then be one between stronger growth measures supported by debt - forgiveness and renegotiated bailout terms or an orderly return to the drachma and the lira, accompanied by capital controls and a government recovery plan.

On a trip to the Greek isle of Samos from 1923 to 1924 — an expedition he undertook with his intrepid second wife, Lilian — Brown hired a team of 18 men and 6 women to haul dirt in baskets for «the attractive sum of 35 drachmas (70 cents) per day for the men and 20 drachmas per day for the girls.»

The drachma was Greece's currency before it joined the eurozone in 2001.