Late Ptolemaic and Augustan Egyptian bronze-drachma reckoning
Late Ptolemaic and Augustan Egyptian bronze-drachma reckoning: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
- Attic drachma
Where this money came from
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No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
The story
BGU XIV 2376 distinguishes a 3, 080-silver-drachma debt from five bronze talents for damages and expenses, demonstrating parallel account denominations. [1]
Last evidence admitted here is not an abolition date. [2]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
O.Wilck. 1545 still uses the inherited bronze-decimal reckoning in 10 AD. [3]
Sources and evidence
- Andrew Monson · Receipts for sitônion, syntaxis, and epistatikon from Karanis: Evidence for Fiscal Reform in Augustan Egypt? ZPE 191 (2014), 207–230 C1820 ↗
- Andrew Monson · Receipts for sitônion, syntaxis, and epistatikon from Karanis: Evidence for Fiscal Reform in Augustan Egypt? ZPE 191 (2014), 207–230 C1860 ↗
- Andrew Monson · Receipts for sitônion, syntaxis, and epistatikon from Karanis: Evidence for Fiscal Reform in Augustan Egypt? ZPE 191 (2014), 207–230 C1821 ↗
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“Late Ptolemaic and Augustan Egyptian bronze-drachma reckoning.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V29-EGYPT-BRONZE-DRACHMA.html