Persian Gold Darics Discovered

I only have the one. That's enough.

Interesting story, Lucky Cuss - thank you for sharing it. Reading such articles helps to remediate my deficiencies in history.
Evidently the number of coins in the hoard is a well-guarded secret.

Yes for me too. Maybe we should start a "post your Persian Daric/Siglos" thread?

Thank you, Sap! I went to the UM site and read a couple more articles and each only mentioned a "hoard".

Interesting find for sure. The owner(s) must have come to a bad end, could not get the coins. I only have two of the silver siglos versions, no ancient gold.

More trivia about darics: they are the oldest coin mentioned in the Bible. Ezra 8:27 mentions 20 gold bowls donated to the reconstructed Temple, "valued at 1000 darics". The Hebrew word used is "adarkonim", which is interpreted as a reference to the coins themselves rather than a unit of weight; a related Greek-ified term "darkemonium" used elsewhere in Nehemiah and Ezra seems to be a reference to the weight of a daric.

They thus qualify as "biblical coins" - which no doubt does not help in making them affordable.

About Biblical coins, for about 16 years my quest was to collect at least one coin from every Bible city or region that minted coins and from every person in the Bible that had coins struck in their name. I mostly concentrated on copper/bronze but also got some silver coins. Many are comon, not hard to get ancient coins from Rome, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus etc. Some are very rare, only striking coins for a few years. Coins from cities like Ashdod, Diospolis, Carach-Moba, Marisa, Derbe and others are rare. I have several Derbe coins which there are only about 24 known last I checked. They started excavating Derbe a few years ago so more of its coins may be found.

When The Celator was still being published I wrote a short article for them with a Bibilcial cities/persons checklist which came to about 100 that struck coins. I had about 99% success getting at least one coin from my Biblical list but never got an Ashdod, they are expensive and some of their attributions are uncertain.

I have coins of Biblical Roman emperors, Augustus, Tiberius, Herodian coins King Herod, Herod Antipas etc, a Christ lifetime issue of the silver Shekel of Tyre, all the mint cities that St. Paul visited. I still have the collection at the bank box. I enjoyed getting them. After that I started buying Morgan and Peace dollars, some other classic USA coins. But I've since moved on, now mostly buy modern silver/gold bullion to stack.