Daric

The gold used in the coins was of very high quality with a purity of 95.83%[5] and it bore the image of the Persian king or a great warrior armed with a bow and arrow.

The numismatic evidence does not permit identification of the image on the darics and sigloi as anything but that of the king; it was adopted by Darius as a dynamic expression of his royal power expressly for his coin issues.

The coin is mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible, where it is called the "adarkonim",[6] as the Israelites came into contact with it when their Babylonian conquerors were conquered by Persia.

"[7] Since David's reign is believed to be between c. 1048 and c. 1007 BC according to Old Testament chronology, the use of the daric is either an anachronism or a conversion by the writer into contemporary units.

[10][11] After bribes distributed by a Persian satrap to start the Corinthian War in Greece led to Spartan king Agesilaus II being recalled from a successful campaign in Asia Minor, he remarked that he had been driven out of Asia by "ten (alternately thirty) thousand archers" (referring to the image stamped on the daric).