A dictionary of Greek and Roman . re also silver darics, bearing the samedevice as the gold, namelv, the figure of anarcher. (Plut. Cim. 10 ; Aelian. V. H. i. 22.)Their weights vary from 224 to 230 grains:those of the latter weight must have been struck,as was not very unusual in old coinages, some-what above the true weight ; they seem to havebeen didrachms of the Babylonian or Egyptianstandard. In allusion to the device of an archer, thedarics were often called To£orai, and it is related ofAgesilaus, that, when recalled to Greece, he saidthat the Persian king had driven him out
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . re also silver darics, bearing the samedevice as the gold, namelv, the figure of anarcher. (Plut. Cim. 10 ; Aelian. V. H. i. 22.)Their weights vary from 224 to 230 grains:those of the latter weight must have been struck,as was not very unusual in old coinages, some-what above the true weight ; they seem to havebeen didrachms of the Babylonian or Egyptianstandard. In allusion to the device of an archer, thedarics were often called To£orai, and it is related ofAgesilaus, that, when recalled to Greece, he saidthat the Persian king had driven him out of Asiaby means of 30,000 bowmen, referring to the sum DECASMUS. 385 which was entrusted to Timocrates the Rhodian tobribe the demagogues of Thebes and Athens tomake his presence necessary at home. (Plut. , Artax. 20, Lacon. Apophth. p. 181.) Ary-andes, who was appointed governor of Egypt byCambyses, is supposed to have been the first whostruck these silver coins, in imitation of the goldcoinage of Dareius Hystaspis. (Herod, iv. 166.). GOLD DARIC. BRITISH MUSEUM. ACTUAL SIZE.
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