From the Greek drachmé, the official currency of Greece from 1833 to 2002, the year in which it was replaced by the euro. He had 100 leptons or leptons. In classical antiquity a drachma was a coin of just over 4 grams of silver. Aristophanes tells us in the wasps that a magistrate earned a drachma and a half daily and that with that three people could live well.