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identification of the image on the darics and sigloi as anything but that of the king; it was adopted by Darius as a dynamic expression of his royal power expressly for his coin issues.
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as asking an assembly of people to donate for the construction of the Temple. The people gave generously "for the service of the house of God five thousand
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480:(1993). "1 Chronicles". In Wayne A. Meeks (ed.).
269:Double Daric minted, well after the conquests of
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338:The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage
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655:DARIC – Encyclopaedia Iranica
484:The HarperCollins Study Bible
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960:Battle of the Persian Border
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80:Darius I
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1278:Babylon
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