Brewer's: Darics

(or) Stateres Darici. Celebrated Persian coins. So called from Darius. They bear on one side the head of the king, and on the other a chariot drawn by mules. Their value is about twenty-five shillings.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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