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Egyptian silver drachma accounting
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Attic drachma accounting Egyptian silver drachma accounting
Evidence period: 332 BC–259 BCQualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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Egyptian silver drachma accountingSuccessor or branch
Late Ptolemaic and Augustan Egyptian bronze-drachma reckoningEvidence period: 220 BC–200 BCQualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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Egyptian silver drachma accounting Late Ptolemaic and Augustan Egyptian bronze-drachma reckoning
Evidence period: 220 BC–200 BCQualifiedEarlier ancestry; intervening stages remain openA span of evidence, not an exact foundation date.
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