Gr. Antiq. [ad. Gr. τρίδραχμον, f. τρι-, TRI- + δραχμή DRACHM.] A silver coin of ancient Greece, of the value of three drachms: see DRACHM 1.
1777. Raper, in Phil. Trans., LXI. 469. Their larger Coins above the Drachm were, the Didrachm, the Tridrachm, and the Tetradrachm.
1827. Robinson, Archæol. Græca, V. xxvi. (ed. 2), 550. 3 dr[achmæ] or tridrachm, 1/111/4.
1842. Smith’s Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq., s.v. Drachma, Among those [silver coins] now preserved, the tetradrachm is commonly found; but we possess no specimens of the tridrachm, and only a few of the didrachm.
