Crossword-Solution: DARIC 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The Greeks, though they still suspected a delusion, contented themselves with this answer in the face of their present difficulties, especially as Cyrus promised to raise their pay from one Daric to one Daric and a half a month.

The name of “daric” was extended to these coins also, which, however, were much larger and heavier than the gold coins, weighing as much as 235 grains, and corresponding to the Greek tetradrachm, and (nearly) to the Hebrew shekel.

McDonald says it is a stater, about the same as a Persian daric-something like the value of a sovereign.” “Oh, indeed; very interesting.” To give Evelyn her due, it must be confessed that she blushed at this equivocation about the inscription, and she got quite hot with shame thinking what would become of her if Philip should ever know that she was regarding him as a stater and wearing his name on her breast.

The 'daric,' a Persian gold coin, very much of the same value as our own rose noble, had its name from Darius.

The most ancient type of daric was thick and irregular in shape, and rudely stamped, but of remarkable fineness, the amount of alloy being never more than three per cent.