At Athens disgruntled Greeks reluctantly snipped off one-fourth of such banknotes as they possessed having a face value of 25 drachmas ($5) or more. Each large residual end of their clipped ...

Greece was a bit more generous and gave everyone until March 2012 to exchange their drachmas. Now anyone there who finds old currency under a loose floorboard is out of luck. Germans continue ...

For his intentional submission, the loser would be paid 3,800 drachmas. Although match fixing is alluded to by some ancient Greek writers, according to Rathbone, “This is the first known ...

The vendor can be found South West of Philadelphia. This horse costs 300 Drachmas. This two-toned camel may be a common mount, but it is ridiculously cute. Assassin's Creed Origins has a decent ...

But when Georgios Averoff of Alexandria donated 920,000 gold drachmas to build an Olympic stadium in Athens, the resistance folded, and the King of Greece himself opened the first modern Olympic ...

B.C. was one of the most disastrous years in the history of Athens, if not the worst. Two of its most distinguished sons, the philosophers Demosthenes and Hyperides, died within a week, and thousands ...

Amongst other items, he was selling plastic cameras for 28 drachmas. "The first photos I took were so vivid. People from the surrounding villages were asking me to take their photo portraits for ...

India is world’s second biggest consumer of gold, after China. Bulk of the gold requirement is met through imports and domestic bullion recycled locally. So apart from international prices ...

There was the time on an end of season tour of Greece that Gerry and his Bristol City team-mate Donnie Gillies – a fellow Scot – refused to pay the couple of Drachmas required to walk through ...