What are drachmas?

A drachma is like a coin that people used to trade things with, just like you might use coins to buy candy from the store.

Imagine you and your friend are playing at the park, and instead of using real money, you both have little round pieces of metal. These are drachmas, they're kind of like the old version of coins that people used a long time ago in places like Greece. Just as you might give your friend one coin to get a toy, people back then would use drachmas to buy food, clothes, or even go to school.

When someone wanted something from the market, they’d hand over some drachmas, and the seller would give them what they needed. It was like having a special kind of play money that everyone agreed had value, just like how you might agree with your friend that one coin is worth one piece of candy.

Sometimes people even saved up their drachmas in jars, like how you might save up your coins to buy something bigger later. They were super useful back then, and lots of people used them every day!