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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3297572, member: 82322&quot;]&quot;Dirham&quot; is just the Arabic word for &quot;Drachm&quot;.&nbsp; The word was used in pre-Islamic times, before there was an Arab currency called the &quot;dirham&quot;.&nbsp; You shouldn&#039;t think of it as a particular series of coins.&nbsp; Dirhams are still used in Morocco.&nbsp; If you go there you can still spend &quot;drachms&quot; if you squint a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am comfortable spending paper &quot;dollars&quot;.&nbsp; They look and feel nothing like the silver dollars my grandfather spent.&nbsp; However there are people alive today who spent both and considered them interchangeable.&nbsp; The coin is named after the Dutch Lion &quot;daalder&quot; and German &quot;thaler&quot;.&nbsp; I certainly don&#039;t feel like I am spending &quot;thalers&quot; but the word is clearly the same, just spelled and pronounced differently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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