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.
| 1579–80 North Plutarch (1595) 313 Foure Tetradrachmas a day. 1770 Swinton in Phil. Trans. LXI. 92 A fine Punic tetradrachm. 1807 Robinson Archæol. Græca v. xxvi. 567 The less ancient tetradrachms were current during four or five centuries. 1879 H. 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.
| 1770 Swinton in Phil. Trans. LXI. 98 The medal..is of the tetradrachmal form. 1771 Raper ibid. 533 Had the first Denarius been Didrachmal or Tetradrachmal, so well-informed a writer must have known it. |