Meanings
nounoctadrachm (plural octadrachms)
plural octadrachms · alternative oktadrachm
- historicalAn Ancient Greek coin having a value of eight drachmas.
On the morning of the 3rd of September he was dictating to his secretary a monograph to which he had given the attractive title, "The Portrait of Alexander the Great, as Jupiter Ammon, on an unedited octadrachm of Macedonia," when a telegram was brought in.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
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