Doubloon vs Drachma - What's the difference?
doubloon | drachma |
A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
* 1883,
The currency of Greece from ancient times until 2001, with the symbol , since replaced by the euro.
A coin worth one drachma.
An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains.
A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
As nouns the difference between doubloon and drachma
is that doubloon is a former spanish gold coin, also used in its american colonies while drachma is the currency of greece from ancient times until 2001, with the symbol , since replaced by the euro.doubloon
English
Noun
(en noun)- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pices stamped with what looked like wisps of string or its of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to ware them round your neck - nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...