daric

How to use daric in a sentence

• He could guarantee that each soldier should receive a daric a month as pay, the officers double pay, and the generals quadruple.

  Anabasis | Xenophon

• Hence the gold daric was changed for ten silver staters or twenty silver drachmas.

  The History of Antiquity | Max Duncker

• From one daric to one daric and a half per month, $5 to $7.50.

  Callias | Alfred John Church

• The daric was a Persian gold coin, generally supposed to have derived its name from Darius I.; but others think this doubtful.

  The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis | Xenophon

• They were coined on the scale of 3000 gold darics to one talent, each daric weighing normally.2788 oz.

  History Of Egypt, Chalda, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) | G. Maspero