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The daric was a gold coin used within the Persian Empire. It weighs around eight grams and bears the image of the Persian king armed with a bow and arrow. The coin was introduced by King Darius I of Persia some time between 522 BC and 486 BC.


The coin is mentioned several times in the Old Testament, as the children of Israel came into contact with it when their Babylonian conquerors where conquered by Persia


Some, such as the Ancient Greeks, believed that this coin's name is derived from the name Darius, but in reality it appears to be derived from a Persian word meaning "gold"; in Middle Persian it is called zarig.


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Although it was the only gold coin of its period that was struck continuously, the daric was eventually displaced from its central economic position first by the biga stater of Philip II of Macedonia (359-36 B.C.E.) and then, conclusively, by the Nike stater of Alexander the Great (336-23 B.C.E.).
In fact, the numismatic evidence does not permit identification of the image on the darics and sigloi as anything but that of the emperor; it was adopted by Darius as a dynamic expression of his royal power expressly for his coin issues.
The fact that in the time of Alexander the Great double darics with the image of the great king were being issued in the eastern part of the empire, perhaps in Babylon (Le Rider), suggests that there may already have been a mint there under the Achaemenids.
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