Kilograms to Attic Drachmas (kg to drachma)

1 kilogram equals 229.0426019 Attic drachmas (rounded).

1 kilogram = 229.0426019 Attic drachmas

How to convert kilograms to Attic drachmas

To convert kilograms to Attic drachmas, multiply the number of kilograms by 229.0426019. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply Attic drachmas by 0.004366.

Attic drachmas = kilograms × 229.0426019

Example: 10 kilograms = 2,290.426019 Attic drachmas.

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

Kilogram (kg)

Metric (SI)Current unit

The SI base unit of mass. Since 2019 it is defined by fixing the value of the Planck constant, replacing the old platinum-iridium cylinder in Paris.

Oddly for a base unit, the kilogram began life as a derived one. In 1793 revolutionary France defined the grave as the mass of one litre of water, and a decree of 1795 then replaced it with the kilogramme, a name built from the Greek khilioi (a thousand) and gramma, a Late Latin word for a small weight. In 1799 a platinum cylinder, the Kilogramme des Archives, became the physical standard, matching a cubic decimetre of water at its densest, around 4 degrees Celsius. In 1889 the metric community adopted a platinum-iridium cylinder made in 1879, the International Prototype of the Kilogram, nicknamed Le Grand K.

The kilogram is still the only SI base unit with a prefix in its name. Because SI forbids stacked prefixes, a millionth of a kilogram is a milligram rather than a microkilogram, so every mass prefix is attached to the gram. Calibrating every national standard against one object in a vault near Paris meant that all of them drifted relative to it, so in November 2018 member states voted to tie the kilogram to a fixed value of the Planck constant. The change took effect on 20 May 2019. Day to day nothing shifted, but the definition no longer depends on a single piece of metal.

The kilogram is the reference unit for weight & mass on this site.

Sources: NIST: Kilogram introduction (SI redefinition); Wikipedia: Kilogram

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)

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