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thumb|Type IIIb Achaemenid Daric, c. 420 BC.
The daric was a gold coin which, along with a similar silver coin, the siglos, represented the bimetallic monetary standard of the Achaemenid Empire.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Persian daric” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.