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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gold coin (also called darkemon) mentioned in the original text of the book of Ezra, etc., as in use among the Jews, and translated dram in the authorized version. It was a foreign coin, probably the Persian daric (which see), and is so rendered in the revised version.

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