Dram: The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim
(1 Chronicles 29:7)
(Ezra 8:27) and the similar word darkomnim
(Ezra 2:69; Nehemiah 7:70) as
equivalent to the Greek silver coin the drachma. But the Revised
Version rightly regards it as the Greek dareikos, a Persian gold coin
(the daric) of the value of about 1 pound, 2s., which was first
struck by Darius, the son of Hystaspes, and was current in Western
Asia long after the fall of the Persian empire.
