daric
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of daric
1560–70; < Greek Dāreikós (statḗr) (Persian stater) of Darius ( def. )
Example Sentences
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He could guarantee that each soldier should receive a daric a month as pay, the officers double pay, and the generals quadruple.
From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham
Very few specimens of the daric have come down to us; their scarcity may he accounted for by the fact that they were melted down under the type of Alexander.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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)
Gold daric; a Persian coin worth about $5.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
The name of the coin, "daric," is probably not derived from his name, however.
From Outline of Universal History by Fisher, George Park
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