Daric

The daric (Hebrew darkemon) was a Persian gold coin weighing approximately 8.4 grams, named after Darius I of Persia. It bore the image of the Persian king as a running archer and was the standard gold coin of the Persian empire. In Scripture it appears in the context of contributions for the rebuilding of the temple: David's offering for the first temple (1 Chronicles 29:7) uses the term anachronistically in the sense of a gold coin of known weight, while Ezra 2:69 and 8:27 and Nehemiah 7:70–72 record post-exilic contributions in darics for the second temple's construction. The daric is thus a marker of the Persian period documents and confirms the historical authenticity of the Ezra-Nehemiah records.