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Daric   Listen
noun
Daric  n.  
1.
(Antiq.)
(a)
A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.
(b)
A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.
2.
Any very pure gold coin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Daric" Quotes from Famous Books



... traffic. Donkeys raised their wheezing protest against too heavy loads of farm produce. Megarian swine squealed and tugged at their leg-cords. An Asiatic sailor clamoured at the money-changer's stall for another obol in change for a Persian daric. "Buy my oil!" bawled the huckster from his wicker booth beside the line of Hermes-busts in the midst of the square. "Buy my charcoal!" roared back a companion, whilst past both was haled a grinning negro with a crier who bade every gentleman to "mark his chance" for a fashionable servant. ...
— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis



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