The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim ( 1 Chronicles 29:7 ; Ezra 8:27 ), and the similar word darkomnim ( Ezra 2:69 ; Nehemiah 7:70 ), as equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin (the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire. (See DARIC .)
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