Attic Drachmas to Grams (drachma to g)

1 Attic drachma equals 4.366 grams exactly.

1 Attic drachma = 4.366 grams

How to convert Attic drachmas to grams

To convert Attic drachmas to grams, multiply the number of Attic drachmas by 4.366. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply grams by 0.2290426019 (rounded).

grams = Attic drachmas × 4.366

Example: 10 Attic drachmas = 43.66 grams.

Approximate value. Standards for the Attic drachma varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Attic Drachma (drachma)

Ancient GreekHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

About 4.366 g of silver. The weight of the basic ancient Greek coin of the same name.

Greek drassomai means to grasp, and the drachma is usually explained as a handful. Early bullion money took the form of metal rods, and six of them made a fistful. When coins replaced the rods, the name stayed with the coin that stood for that handful. Cities minted drachmas to different weight standards, and the Athenian or Attic one became the most widespread. It is commonly put at a little over 4.3 grams of silver, and the figure used here, 4.366 grams, is one estimate within that range.

Surviving coins and weights depart noticeably from any theoretical value, so the true standard remains somewhat uncertain. Six obols made one drachma, and 100 drachmas made a mina. In the fifth and fourth centuries BC a skilled worker or soldier earned roughly one drachma a day. Athenian silver from the Laurion mines had a reputation for purity. A drachma weighs about as much as a modern teaspoon of sugar, roughly a seventh of an ounce, and its name was revived for Greece's national currency from 1833 until the euro arrived in 2002.

1 Attic drachma = 0.004366 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Ancient drachma; Wikipedia: Ancient Greek units of measurement; Wikipedia: Mina (unit)

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

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