Dict: easton - Dram

easton:

Dram @ The Authorized Version understood the word 'adarkonim ( kjv@1Chronicles:29:7; kjv@Ezra:8:27), and the similar word darkomnim kjv@Ezra:2:69; kjv@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. (
See DARIC.)