Large silver coin born in ancient Greece, equivalent to four drachmas, as its very name says. In the Attic standard it weighed about 17 grams. It became the main trade coin of the Mediterranean and served as an international currency, used above all for high-value payments.
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Thirty tetradrachms! Thirty tetradrachms! Everything I received is with me. Here is the money! Take it, but let me live