Celebrated Persian coins. So called from Dariʹus. 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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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