Dareikos
The Daric ( Stater ) was the Achaemenid Empire embossed gold coin . The common Greek name Dareikos has been around since the 5th century BC. Occupied. It was a bean-shaped piece of gold weighing about 8.42 grams. The embossing depicts the king as an archer (Greek "Toxotes") in the knee-run scheme . The reverse shows a recessed square (so-called quadratum incusum ).
In the years of the first issue around 515 BC The Dareikos had a weight of 8.05 grams and thus corresponded to the Kroiseios . Soon afterwards, the weight was adjusted to the silver pieces ( Siglos ) in a ratio of 1: 13.33. The fineness is 98; Partial value is the gold obolos (one twelfth).
In the Asia Minor parts of the Persian Empire , similar, larger pieces of silver were minted in good Greek style, sometimes with the Greek names of governors, weighing around 14.9 g.
The Dareikos remained the dominant currency in the Mediterranean until around 345 BC. BC, the time of origin of Philippeios under the Macedonian Philip II ; the double darikos was first coined under Alexander the great .
literature
- Friedrich Hultsch : Dareikos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Col. 2181-2183.
- Carsten Binder: Plutarch's Vita des Artaxerxes. A historical comment . de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020269-4 , pp. 146-149.
- Pierre Briant : From Cyrus to Alexander. A history of the Persian Empire . Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake IN 2002, ISBN 1-575-06031-0 , p. 1184 (index, see daric ).
- Günther Probszt : Gold coins ONE BREVIER . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1963, p. 6
- M. Alram: Daric, in: Encyclopaedia Iranica, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/daric .