daric
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of daric
1560–70; < Greek Dāreikós (statḗr) (Persian stater) of Darius ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Money had been invented and was in circulation in the Greek cities of Asia Minor almost two hundred years, when Darius I introduced the daric.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
It contained more grains of gold than the daric.
From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns
For the dinar, daric or miskßl see The Nights, vol i.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The daric is equal to about a guinea or a louis d'or of our time, as the Chevalier de Jaucourt very well observes, and not ten francs, as Rollin says.
From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
Yes," Waynflete explained, "it is a Persian daric.
From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Brander Matthews
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