An ancient Greek coin worth twelve drachmas, used in classical times.
From Greek 'dodeca-' (twelve) and 'drachma' (a silver coin). The drachma was a standard Greek currency unit, and prefixing it with 'dodeca-' named the higher-value coin denomination.
Numismatists studying ancient Greek economics use terms like 'dodecadrachm' to understand price inflation and trade—a single word can encode how wealthy someone was in 400 BCE.
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