Difference between revisions of "Daric"

<p> A gold coin current in [[Palestine]] after the return from Babylon. The [[Persian]] kings issued it; the obverse having the king with bow and javelin or dagger, the reverse a square; 128 grains troy. Ezra 2:69; Ezra 8:27; Nehemiah 7:70-72; 1 Chronicles 29:7, "drams" KJV. Derived from [[Darius]] the Mede, or else dara , "a king", the regal coin (compare our "crown".) The [[Greek]] drachma , our dram, is related. </p>

<p> Daric. (From Dara, a king). Authorized Version, "dram," 1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69; Ezra 8:27; Nehemiah 7:70-72. A gold coin current in Palestine, in the period after the return from Babylon. It weighed 128 grains, and was worth about five dollars. </p> <p> At these times, there was no large issue of gold money except by the [[Persian]] kings. The darics which have been discovered are thick pieces of pure gold, of archaic style, bearing on the obverse the figure of a king with bow and javelin or bow and dagger, and on the reverse an irregular incuse square. The silver daric was worth about fifty cents. </p>

<p> '''''dar´ik''''' ( דּרכּמון , <i> '''''darkemōn''''' </i> , and אדרכּון , <i> ''''''adharkōn''''' </i> ; δαρεικός , <i> '''''dareikós''''' </i> ): A P ersian gold coin about a guinea or five dollars in value. The first form of the word occurs in 1 Chronicles 29:7; Ezra 2:69 , and Nehemiah 7:70-72; the second in Ezra 8:27 and is rendered, "dram" in the King James Version and "daric" in the Revised Version (British and American). In the passage in Chronicles, it must refer to a weight, since at the time of [[David]] there were no coins, but in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah the [[Persian]] darics were current. See [[Money]] . </p>

<p> Bibliography InformationMcClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Daric'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/d/daric.html. [[Harper]] & Brothers. New York. 1870. </p>