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Drachma, Drachm

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(handful). A silver coin of Greece, corresponding to the Roman denarius, and worth about fifteen and a half cents. A piece of silver (Luke 15:8-9⁸Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? ⁹And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. (Luke 15:8‑9)).