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tetradrachm Gr. Antiq.|ˈtɛtrədræm|
Also in L. and Gr. forms 6–9 tetradrachma, 7–8 -drachmon.
[ad. Gr. τετράδραχµον: see tetra- and drachm.]
A silver coin of ancient Greece, of the value of four drachms: see drachm 1.
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 313 Foure Tetradrachmas a day. 1770Swinton in Phil. Trans. LXI. 92 A fine Punic tetradrachm. 1807Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 567 The less ancient tetradrachms were current during four or five centuries. 1879H. Phillips Notes Coins 6 The cistophori are tetradrachms bearing as their generic type a wreath and berries of ivy, surrounding a chest whence issue serpents.
Hence tetradrachmal |-ˈdrækməl| a., of or pertaining to a tetradrachm.
1770Swinton in Phil. Trans. LXI. 98 The medal..is of the tetradrachmal form. 1771Raper ibid. 533 Had the first Denarius been Didrachmal or Tetradrachmal, so well-informed a writer must have known it. |